College professors in the various liberal arts fields have the perfect opportunity to teach students writing, history and English, regardless of their field of expertise. Most liberal arts subjects lend themselves well to these three subjects. Professors in English, for example, can incorporate history into their lectures regularly. Likewise, those that teach history can just as easily include lessons in writing and English as part of teaching history in the classroom.

Collaborate with other professors or instructors in other fields of study outside of your own to create mutually reinforcing curriculum for all of your classes. History professors, for example, can agree to use some of the great novels from history to illustrate and supplement lessons that can be learned from intellectual and social history. English professors can likewise require students to understand the historical context for any given literary work.

Make writing the cornerstone of your course curriculum. Writing can be naturally incorporated into any course as a means of assessing students. Rather than using objective examinations, for example, students should be expected to articulate their understanding of the course material through writing. History students, for example, can be tested by writing essays that indicate an understanding of the key ideas in certain historical events. They can also be tested over their grammar and writing style at the same time. Research papers and other assigned essays outside of class also make it possible to incorporate these types of subjects into any class.

Critique the writing of students with every assignment you make. This will be the most time-consuming aspect of teaching your courses, but students simply cannot learn to write better if they do not know what it is that they are doing wrong in the first place. Rather than letting grammar and style be secondary to coursework, let it be equally or nearly as important to the curriculum requirements of the course.

Assign collaborative writing and research projects so that students can learn from each other. Students who work together in small groups of three or four should be allowed to work together to produce a research paper and an oral presentation to accompany the paper. In the days or weeks leading up to the completion of the project, students can critique each other's presentation and research paper and learn through the point-of-view of other people.