Students as Scholars and Writers - Teaching and Assessing Undergraduate Writing in a Capstone Course

Abstract

This session explores an innovative approach for engaging and assessing undergraduate students in the writing process. Through an iterative, intensive hybrid course design that includes both in-classroom and online teaching, our capstone course integrates writing instruction as students learn a new topic, gather and analyze data, and write a research paper complete with an introduction, literature review, findings section, and discussion/conclusion. We will discuss the processes students undergo while learning to research and write as social science scholars.