Special session - writing: an active learning tool for majors and non-majors

The educational benefits of adapting a writing approach in the classroom have been widely documented. Writing can serve as a tool to improve the quality of teaching as well as to promote deeper and more meaningful student learning. In this workshop we will explore various strategies in which writing can be used to enhance student understanding in introductory physics and engineering classrooms by summarizing three unique projects designed to address the role of writing in terms of the assessment of student learning. Goal of the session is to introduce people to the value of using writing as a teaching tool in science and engineering