Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom by John Bean (Jossey-Bass, 1996)

Engaging Ideas is one of those great books that is packed with ideas to try out in the classroom right away. With sound advice on designing assignments, giving feedback, and grading, this book is a classic that will benefit both new and experienced faculty.

They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006)

With They Say, I Say Graff and Birkenstein have defined the archetypes of academic moves--like quoting and responding--in a way that demystifies them for student writers. Even experienced scholars will look at their writing in a new way after reading this book, and using the language of They Say, I Say will help faculty coach students through the writing process.

Rewriting: How to Do Things With Texts by Joseph Harris (Utah State University Press, 2006)

Start this book by reading the Afterword directed to teachers, then go back and read the other chapters. In a similar vein as They Say, I Say, Harris’s Rewriting reminds us of the writing moves that become second nature to scholars and provides language for introducing those moves to students.

Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment by Barbara Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson (Jossey-Bass, 1998)

Chapter 8 of Effective Grading, "Making Grading More Time-Efficient" is reason alone to read this book. In addition, Walvoord and Johnson offer a complete set of strategies for grading in the classroom and describe how to use grading for assessment purposes.

Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock (National Council of Teachers of English, 2009)

Warnock shows teachers how to "migrate" their best classroom practices to the online environment. The suggestions for managing student discussions and feedback are useful for faculty in any discipline who use writing as a component of their online courses.