Low Stakes Writing: From Activities To Assignments

Abstract

The primary purpose of low stakes writing is to increase the extent of how much students consider, understand, and learn the material they are being taught, and this process is left either ungraded or graded informally. This article explores some activities to be used in this type of teaching writing, and implementation of some of those activities in practice. Besides, in the article there are given several sample assignments intended for university students involving low stakes writing.