{"id":132961,"date":"2026-10-13T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=132961"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:03:33","slug":"designing-meaningful-and-effective-writing-assignments-this-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/designing-meaningful-and-effective-writing-assignments-this-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Meaningful and Effective Writing Assignments, This Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up today to join colleagues and student tutors on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 12 p.m. in Elliott 101 for a hands-on workshop on designing effective writing assignments using the TILT framework. Lunch is provided. Please bring a current or draft assignment sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0We will discuss the TILT model and how it helps increase student learning and motivation, and also attempt to answer any questions you may have, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do students actually notice about our assignments?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What confuses them, and what do they like to see? (Get direct feedback from a panel of student tutors on what types of prompts cause confusion or spark engagement).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/qW4raDzdrA6zbojo7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/forms.gle\/qW4raDzdrA6zbojo7&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1791941109824000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1g5T2lHZrLbvBBkC-ndZgE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign-up | Designing Writing Assignments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsor: Smith Center, Ohio Wesleyan University<br \/>\nContact: Barb Bird at <a href=\"mailto:bjbird@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjbird@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up today to join colleagues and student tutors on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 12 p.m. in Elliott 101 for a hands-on workshop on designing effective writing assignments using the TILT framework. Lunch is provided. Please bring a current or draft assignment sheet. \u00a0We will discuss the TILT model and how it helps increase student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132980,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132961\/revisions\/132980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}