• Helping students develop good writing habits
  • Drafts
  • Revision
  • Grammar and correctness
  • Peer evaluation
  • Reading difficult texts
  • Study skills
  • Citation and avoiding plagiarism
  • Issues specific to multilingual students
• Designing and responding to writing assignments
  • Types of writing assignments
  • Formal, "high-stakes" graded assignments
  • Informal, "low-stakes," exploratory writing activities
  • Creating writing objectives
  • Assignments that teach critical thinking
  • Developing grading criteria
  • Responding to student writing
• Further resources
  • Books about writing for music
  • Other writing websites
  • Goals for student writing at Queens College

Designing and responding to writing assignments

In this section of the Writing in Music website, you'll find articles that provide tips both on creating effective writing assignments as well as on providing the kind of feedback to students that motivates and improves their writing.

• Types of writing assignments
• Formal, "high-stakes" graded assignments
• Informal, "low-stakes," exploratory writing activities
• Creating writing objectives
• Assignments that teach critical thinking
• Developing grading criteria
• Responding to student writing