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Browsing First-Year Writing Seminar Program Assignment Sequences by Title
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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 ... -
Quartet for the End of Time
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(Re) Writing the Self
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Reporting on the Rovers
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Researching the Spanish Pavilion
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Rhetoric Analysis, Johnson Museum Excursion, Op-Eds and Creative Writing
(2018)Students learn how to analyze rhetoric, craft an op-ed and switch on creative modes in considering the subjects of food technology, risk and society. Namely, this sequence of events will prepare students to write and ... -
Symbiotic Associations in Nature
(2015)This class focused on the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of information through close reading, group discussions, oral presentations and writing exercises. The goal was to promote active learning and develop critical ... -
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 ...
