11 New Guides to Writing in the Disciplines
Crafted by subject matter experts in collaboration with Achieve for Writer’s Help authors Stephen Bernhardt and Nancy Sommers, Guides to Writing in the Disciplines offer targeted “how-to” writing and research support to all college students. These compact guides pack a powerful punch, providing just the essential instruction students need to get their writing tasks completed successfully--thinking, reading, and researching; writing conventions and designing and writing papers, projects, and presentations; integrating and evaluating sources, documentation; and advice and models of genres of the discipline.
A digital experience co-designed with you and for you
Achieve for Writer’s Help provides teachers of writing deeper visibility into their students’ writing processes so that they can target feedback to help student writers grow and develop across drafts, across assignments, and across courses. Informed by learning science and hundreds of class tests and interviews with students and instructors, Achieve for Writer’s Help is simple to use, powered by superior content, and accessible wherever
writers are.
Writing tools that empower writers and teachers
A flexible assignment building tool allows instructors to assign ready-made writing prompts, customize the prompts provided, or create their own assignments. Publisher-provided assignments for common types of writing--argument, analysis, researched essay, annotated bibliography, and narrative--include prompts, rubrics, reflection questions, and suggested goals to achieve as students draft.
Instructor feedback tools. Powerful commenting tools allow instructors to focus their feedback on success
criteria and efficiently mark patterns of error. Feedback links to e-book content to provide students with point-of-
need support within the context of their own writing.
A clear assignment journey that involves response, reflection, and revision leads to a concrete action plan
for each student writer and fosters independent learning.
- The Revision Plan lets students take ownership of revision planning by helping them turn
feedback into strategies to strengthen their writing. Revision planning creates accountability
for students and provides instructors with additional insight into how well students
understand the feedback they’ve received on their writing. - Reflection Instructors can choose and customize reflection prompts. Students can communicate
their confidence in their writing and articulate the choices they’re making as writers, increasing their
rhetorical awareness and promoting the transfer of skills from draft to draft. Instructors can
choose and customize reflection prompts. - Peer review tools, tied to clear and specific goals, help writers build a vocabulary about writing and become critical readers of both their own work and that of their peers.
- Reporting and Insights highlight student engagement, provide opportunities for intervention, and visualize
trends in student progress from assignment to assignment. Instructors can easily track what students do with instructor and peer feedback and can use reflection data to understand students’ sentiments about their work
in the course.
Diagnostics and study plans
Achieve for Writer’s Help allows instructors to assign diagnostic pre-tests that generate study plans for students based on areas where they need the most improvement. Students will also take a post-test so that they can track their improvement. Instructors can monitor student progress at all stages of the study plan. They can analyze results by roster or by individual student, and they can compare pre- and post-test scores through an intuitive dashboard.
