Editors' Introduction: Presenting Writing Assignments as Intellectual Work and as Disciplinary Practice

Abstract

This article introduces the debut issue of Prompt, a multidisciplinary journal focused specifically on collegiate writing assignments. This journal highlights the pedagogical process of crafting writing assignments and offers contextualized reflections on teaching writing in varied disciplines. This essay reflects on the process for developing the journal and offers a brief overview of the five essays and assignments that make up the first issue.

Training Writing Teachers: An Assignment in Mapping Writing Program Values

“…As Hall and Dueck (2017) acknowledged in the introduction to this journal, assignment creation is intellectual work. Yet my previous research on graduate teaching assistants (TAs) showed that new teachers have difficulty seeing it as such, particularly when introduced to it as a part of a graded teaching practicum where they want to receive a good grade on the teaching materials they create (Grouling, 2015).…”