A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. Engaging Ideas: * Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses. * Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking. * Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities. * Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.