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Browsing First-Year Writing Seminar Program Assignment Sequences by Title
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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 ... -
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 ...
