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An Amazing Experience -- the Importance of Detailed Language
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 11/24/08
Document Type: Discussion Material
I used this activity in class to teach my students about the importance of using specific, detailed language (rather than run-of-the-mill adjectives) to describe events/things.
Write a Bad Email
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 11/24/08
Document Type: Discussion Material
This idea has to do with writing a semi-inappropriate email to your students and then analyzing and rewriting it.
Identifying Multiple Perspectives
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 11/24/08
Document Type: Discussion Material
Classroom exercise designed to facilitate discussion of multiple perspectives surrounding a current issue. The instructor utilizes a few essays along with a video clip from the Colbert Report.
Editing for word economy
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/11/07
Document Type: Grammar Exercise
A short class exercise in which students learn the power of reduction in revision. They might then begin to reduce some of their own freshmanese. Also, the activity can lead to considerations of the significance and purpose of language.
Research Project Ideas
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/07/07
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
These are ways in which we can make class writing assignments relevant in the
Vocabulary Building
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/07/07
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
An idea for helping students build their vocabularies.
Interview/Field Observation Assignments
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/04/07
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
This is the assignment sheet I use when I require my students to use primary research, in the form of interviews and/or observations, within their classes. Obviously, the particulars of the assignment sheet won't necessarily be of use, but the wording/explanation might be useful if you're interested in assigning field observations/interviews as primary research for classes in the future.
Evaluate a Web Site
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/04/07
Document Type: Discussion Material
Before having students complete this worksheet on how to evaluate a Web site, I discuss the nature of
Advocacy Project
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/04/07
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
I am a huge proponent of making assignments relevant outside the classroom. That being said, previous 102 classes (heavy on the research) that I've taught rely on a linked assignment sequence in which students choose a community problem of their individual interest, develop it, research it, develop it some more, and write about it in various ways until the end of the semester, when they propose a solution to the problem on a local scale (this is the cumulative, large-ish research paper). The semester ends with the presentation of an advocacy project, an assignment I provide midway through the semester, in which students produce a text that works to solve the problem (or explain the problem, or heighten awareness about the problem, etc.) that they've been writing about and researching all semester. This assignment works with or without a service-learning requirement, and I'm certain that it could be modified significantly to work in a 101 or 102 class, though I haven't thought about it much outside of the context of the 102 syllabus I created. Posted by Lisa Arnold
Writing Process Assignments
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/03/07
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
These are two Writing Process - centered assignments that call on students to reflect on and analyze how they approach writing and what their approach does for them.
Discussing and Revising with Scissors
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/03/07
Document Type: Other
This is an activity meant to make discussing an essay or revising an essay more interesting by cutting up the essay by paragraphs and then working with the disassembled pieces.
Review of a Journal Article
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 12/03/07
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
Journal Review - CCC
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 08/23/06
Document Type: Other
This is a review of the last year (2005) of CCC that I wrote for Kopelson's Comp. Theory Course.
Eng. 101 Course Schedule - Peggy Otto
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 07/26/06
Document Type: Syllabus/Policy Statement
Eng. 101 Syllabus - Peggy Otto
E101: Introduction to College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 07/26/06
Document Type: Syllabus/Policy Statement
Conference Sign-up Format
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 04/04/06
Document Type: Other
This only works if you are going to schedule conferences at the same time everyday. It's not that big of a deal, but it keeps me from having multiple sign-up sheets circulating.
Library Research
E102: Intermediate College Writing
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Contributed By: test testy , 10/24/05
Document Type: Assignment -- Argumentative Paper
A library research worksheet assginment that can be completed in one class period.
Feedback Template
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 03/08/03
Document Type: Grading Rubric
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Interviewing Techniques
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 03/08/03
Document Type: Other
Suggested techniques for beginning interview researchers
Exploring (Sub)Cultures, Communities, Groups
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 03/08/03
Document Type: Assignment-- Other
Introductory ethnographic assignment for first semester writing
Basic Comma Use
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 03/08/03
Document Type: Other
Easy to use
A Listing/Freewriting Activity on (Sub)Cultures, Groups, Com
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 03/08/03
Document Type: In-class writing assignments
Getting started on
English 101 Course Syllabus
Any class
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Contributed By: test testy , 03/08/03
Document Type: Syllabus/Policy Statement
Course syllabus for writing class using portfolios, workshop format
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