Writng to Learn (WTL) or "transactional writing" means writing to accomplish something.  WTL objectifies perceptions of reality, orders and represents experience,  and becomes a tool for discovering, shaping meaning, and reaching understanding. Writing in the Disciplines (WID) assignments are formal papers that adhere to a format and style guidelines or professional papers.

Writing Across the Curriculum offers links to freewriting, entry and exit slips, reader-response writing, the sentence/passage springboard, microthemes, and more.

Writing-to-Learn in Edutech Wiki presents an overview, learning styles, examples and more.

Let's Take Another Look at the Fish:  The Writing Process as Discovery tells of Louis Agassiz teaching one of his Harvard students that "a pencil is one of the best eyes" and that "facts are stupid things until brought into connection with some general law."  (The Quarterly Fall 1998)

The NWP National Writing Project offers Resource Topics on Teaching Writing in full text PDF documents.

365 Days of Writing Prompts