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Browsing First-Year Writing Seminar Program Assignment Sequences by Title
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Film Viewing Refection Worksheet
Kriszta, Pozsonyi (2017) -
Finding Context, Constructing Arguments, and Cutting: Writing Fundamentals
Sales, Benjamin (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
Dharmasinghe, Geethika (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
Lau, Ting Hui (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
Truglio, Donna (2000) -
Honing Close Reading through Lectio Divina and the Edan Project
Kioko, Victoria Emma (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
Mobus, Freya (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 ... -
How to Do Things with Raymond Chandler: Reading and Writing (about) The Big Sleep
Heidt, Sarah (1998) -
Investigating Women: Science, Gender, and Education
Hill, Jen (1997) -
Is There Any Hope for Pacifism?
Callaghan, Caitlin (2006) -
The Language of Shell-Shock: Reading and Writing about World War I Poetry
Bonikowski, Wyatt (2002) -
Literary Detection
Gehring, Stephanie (2007) -
Looking Closely at Close Reading
Kim, Jane (2010) -
"Making the Stomach Believe": Cinematic Adaptation
Dunnaway, Jen (2002) -
Medieval Moot Court
McSweeney, Thomas (2009) -
Modern Visions of the Medieval and Renaissance World
Mellen, Cate (2005) -
Murder Board Sequence
Weitekamp, Margaret (1999) -
Navigating Scientific Research
Martin, Laura (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
Katherine, Thorsteinson (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 ...