Draft CTW Assignments

This collection will give you some insight as to how GSU faculty CTW ambassadors are currently thinking about CTW assignments.

As you think about these and rethink your own, a couple of things to consider:

1. CTW is interested in assessing both student ability and curriculum performance.
2. A CTW assignment should give a student a chance to both demonstrate and practice his or her ability to think critically in writing.
3. Revision without insightful feedback is like practice without reflection: useless repetition
4. A CTW assignment need not be a traditional assignment with a revision cycle. A CTW assignment should emphasize practice in preperation for the traditional assignment
5. Unless you want your students to learn critical thinking as a process of drafting and revising (which makes sense in some cases), consider short assignments that ask the student to practice a specific cognitive skill, like synthesis or analysis
6. An effective CTW assignment isolates a specific critical thinking skill and gives the student a chance to practice and improve that skill

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