"Engaging Ideas, Second Edition is a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into their courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword by Maryellen Weimer -- Preface to the Second Edition -- About the Author -- 1 Using Writing to Promote Thinking: A Busy Professor's Guide to the Whole Book -- -- PART 1 UNDERSTANDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THINKING AND WRITING -- 2 How Writing Is Related to Critical Thinking -- 3 Helping Writers Think Rhetorically -- 4 Using a Range of Genres to Extend Critical Thinking and Deepen Learning -- 5 Dealing with Issues of Grammar and Correctness -- PART 2 DESIGNING PROBLEM-BASED ASSIGNMENTS -- 6 Formal Writing Assignments -- 7 Informal, Exploratory Writing Activities -- PART 3 COACHING STUDENTS AS LEARNERS, THINKERS, AND WRITERS -- 8 Designing Tasks to Promote Active Thinking and Learning -- 9 Helping Students Read Difficult Texts -- 10 Using Small Groups to Coach Thinking and Teach Disciplinary Argument -- 11 Bringing More Critical Thinking into Lectures and Discussions -- 12 Enhancing Learning and Critical Thinking in Essay Exams -- 13 Designing and Sequencing Assignments to Teach Undergraduate Research -- PART 4 READING, COMMENTING ON, AND GRADING STUDENT WRITING -- 14 Using Rubrics to Develop and Apply Grading Criteria -- 15 Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the Paper Load -- 16 Writing Comments on Students' Papers -- References -- Index.