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Browsing First-Year Writing Seminar Program Assignment Sequences by Title
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Holidays and Social Rivalry
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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?
(2006) -
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 ... -
Persona, Synthesis, Individual: Sequence for Essays 3, 4, and 5 for "Sounding Together"
(2016)This assignment sequence consists of the preparatory work for three major essays (nos. 3, 4, and 5) in the central weeks of the FWS “Sounding Together: Music, Diplomacy, and Imagemaking.” Students wrote a paper adopting ... -
Persuasion
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Planting the Seed of an Argument
(2016)“Planting the Seed of an Argument” is designed to accompany close-reading papers, and encourages students to center their papers around something that stood out to them in the text(s) – the seed of their interest. By ... -
The Politics of ‘Autonomous Vehicles’: A Collaborative Research Project Responding to a CFP
(2022)This sequence of assignments was centered on a major writing task, in which students were asked to write a collective research paper in groups in response to a real-world call for papers on the topic of “The Politics of ... -
Putting the Moves on Your Readers: How to Construct a Seductive and Scintillating Opening Paragraph
(2016)This handout demystifies the moves that a successful “opening paragraph” should make, and in particular suggests that students think of their opening paragraphs as needing to attract readers with two really good “one-liners”—the ...
