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Browsing First-Year Writing Seminar Program Assignment Sequences by Title
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Film Viewing Refection Worksheet
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Finding Context, Constructing Arguments, and Cutting: Writing Fundamentals
(2019)This assignment sequence is designed to enhance students’ writing abilities. The assignments are ordered to help students first see how different arguments fit into the context of a wider dialectic, then to help them build ... -
Grant Proposal
(2021)Writing grant proposals require particular skills but in the end it is skill in writing that is valued most. Ironically, writing a successful grant proposal is not necessarily about how well one knows the subject of a ... -
Grant Proposal Assignment
(2019)Students were assigned a travel grant proposal as their final assignment. Students had to design a research plan, travel itinerary, and budget for the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Engaged Travel Grant. The SEAP Engaged ... -
Holidays and Social Rivalry
(2000) -
Honing Close Reading through Lectio Divina and the Edan Project
(2018)My course asked students to take pleasure in the many facets of “the story” - its motivations, assertions, paradoxes, strategies, and inconsistencies through readings of some of the most recent great books from African ... -
How to Argue Like a Philosopher
(2017)This assignment sequence helps students to learn how to argue like a philosopher. Philosophical arguments have a certain structure, and the often very abstract content requires a high level of clarity. My preparatory writing ... -
Is There Any Hope for Pacifism?
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Literary Detection
(2007) -
Looking Closely at Close Reading
(2010) -
Medieval Moot Court
(2009) -
Murder Board Sequence
(1999) -
Navigating Scientific Research
(2014)This sequence of three assignments, designed for a FWS on field biology, familiarizes students with the structure of scientific journal articles, the workings of the academic peer review process, and the skills required ... -
On the Relation between Form and Content: Telephone
(2016)This class exercise was developed from the game telephone in which people whisper into their neighbor's ear around a circle and note how drastically the sentence changes due to cumulative misinterpretations. In this ...
