Today I met with a professor who told me about a great technique for teaching students how to write well-organized papers- Reverse Outlining. I'd never heard of it before, so of course I searched online to find more information. Essentially, it's what you do after you've written your paper (drafts) to make sure everything flows and makes sense. You go back through your paragraphs and make notes in the margins about the topic the sentences cover, so you can see if things are out of place or repetitive, and fix accordingly. Doesn't that make so much sense? Many of us probably already do this to some extent, but it's nice to have a systematic way of going over things that you can teach your students to do for themselves. The semester is over, so alas, I can't share this with my class, but I am definitely going to hold on to this for future classes. Read on for some links to nice explanations and videos of the process: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/689/1/
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/support/writingcenter/resourcesforwriters/revision/reverse_outline This one has a helpful video: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/reverse-outline/
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