The Skidmore College Expository Writing Network  Strategies for
a Writing-Intensive Instruction  Three kinds of activity easily
integrate into witing-intensive courses. First are those
activities which focus only on the CONTENT, such as lectures and
discussions of texts. Second are activities related solely to
WRITING as separate from the content concerns of the course.
Grammar drills or sentence combining exercises fall into this
category, but so would lecturing on writing in general or
examining models of good writing without reference to the
content. Third are activities which teach BOTH WRITING AND
CONTENT. Peer critiquing, journal writing, and group
brainstorming teach both writing and content as does examining
model essays which are chosen for both the quality of the
writing and the value of the content. The following suggestions
are intended to show how writing can be taught not merely as a
mechanical skill (through sentence and paragraph modeling), nor
merely as the display of information (by concentr