WID assignments


Teachers of 300-level writing classes at NDSU have pooled these resources so that we can benefit from each other's assignments. You are free to adapt these assignments for your purposes.

Longer Assignments

Shorter Assignments

  • Fiction Across the Disciplines , submitted by Cindy Nichols
    A creative writing assignment for fiction writers. Also for students of all fields seeking ways to sharpen their writing skills and to imaginatively engage the content of their chosen disciplines.
  • Poetry Across the Disciplines, submitted by Cindy Nichols
    A creative writing assignment for poets. Also for students of all fields seeking ways to sharpen their writing skills and to imaginatively engage the content of their chosen disciplines.
  • Revise a letter requesting health information, submitted by Dale Sullivan
    Students write an analysis of a poorly written request letter, revise the letter, and then explain their revisions.
  • English 320 Exercises, submitted by Deona McEnery