Idea Exchange

Benefit from your colleagues' expertise and insights! The Idea Exchange is a collection of teaching ideas that will help your students develop better research and writing skills. The Exchange is designed to save you time and lighten your workload. It's adaptable across disciplines and levels of undergraduate instruction and all the materials in it are available for you to duplicate or adapt.

Lesson Plans, Assignments and Worksheets
A selection of ideas from instructors across campus including: a lesson on plagiarism, an assignment on evaluating sources, and an exercise in researching controversial issues.

Creating Curriculum with Writing and Research Components - COMING SOON!
Campus instructors reflect on how they build an effective sequence of assignments.

Your Turn:

Contribute to the Idea Exchange
The lesson plan and assignment section is built through contributions from U of M instructors. To send your materials to reviewers, use this template.
Design your own Lesson Plans and Assignments
Use this template to create your own materials.

Resources and Support:

The Center for Teaching and Learning Services offers workshops to help you better develop and enrich your writing/research assignments.
The University Libraries offers workshops and online tutorials/guides that may be of interest to instructors and/or support the assignments you design.
The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing has online resources for instructors designing writing intensive assignments.

There is no copyright associated with these materials. Please duplicate or adapt them to suit your needs.

Developed in collaboration with the University Libraries, Center for Teaching and Learning Services, English Composition, and teachers from across campus.