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Aedes albopictus submission kit
Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (2024)
Submission kit and guidelines to be used by public agencies submitting Aedes albopictus specimens to the NEVBD laboratory at Cornell University for pesticide resistance testing.
The Pros and Cons of “Cosmopolitanism”: Toward a Comparative Argumentative Essay
Shou, Tianyi (2023)
This sequence of exercises is centered around the final project, in which students are
asked to write a comparative argumentative essay in response to the term “cosmopolitanism.”
Spanning across four weeks at the end of the term, the sequence that leads up to an 8-10-page
essay aims at helping students craft a critical, comparative outlook in handling complex research
topics, as well as developing skills of presenting ideas in a collaborative intellectual community.
Writing in Style
Brown, Abigail (2023)
The Writing in Style exercise aims to help students understand the importance of writing style, define
their writing style in a course-related application, and explore their compositional choices. The modular
activities make style approachable with individual and group work that builds on familiar writing skills,
encourages revision, utilizes relevant course and cultural materials, and models an application of AI
technology to the writing process.
Cartographic Essay
Lasky, Joseph (2023)
Maps reflect and geographically reify social and political imaginaries. Through them,
cartographers structure space with intention. Nationalist entrepreneurs use scale,
symbology, and language to solidify ties to people and territory. To understand nationalism
as a process and the role of cartography in [re]producing the nation, students were asked
to first draft a map (defined broadly). Once complete, the map – now a primary document
– served as a lens in an exploration of nation building.
Written Approaches to Festival, Ritual, and Carnival
Horner, Rachel (2023)
This sequence of three assignments encourages students to approach the class topic of festivals,
rituals, and carnivals through three distinct, yet interrelated, written media: an ethnographic
narrative, an interview write-up, and a podcast script. Each assignment offers clear parameters in
the form of preparatory activities, required readings, and peer and instructor feedback to help
students channel their creative instincts toward refined pieces of writing that facilitate the
development of their voices as authors.