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Browsing First-Year Writing Seminar Program Assignment Sequences by Title
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Tackling Long, Complicated Sentences
(2017)This is a handout for an in-class lesson, provided midway through the semester on correcting long, wordy, complicated sentences to improve student writing for clarity. Students revisit this activity during a peer-review ... -
The Text and the Object
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That's Not Cricket
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Thesis Telephone
(2016)Argumentative writing requires that you state a position and make a claim. Typically this main claim, or thesis, will come at the end of your introduction, where it functions to summarize of what you’ll be arguing in your ... -
Think Tank
(2021)This assignment asks students to work as researchers for a think tank. It first requires students to perform research on a topic that is assigned to them and write an individual research paper. Then, once the individual ... -
Three Types of Scientific Writing
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Writing about Environmental Politics
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Writing as an Act of Conversing: Discussing Free Speech
(2017)This assignment sequence includes three essays, various preparation assignments, and in-class activities. Crafted for the development of critical thinking skills, it takes students through a brief history of the philosophical ...
