This activity that was created by Professor Munoz for a Professional Development Event for the Writing Center’s tutors. It may also be adapted as an exercise for students in 100-level English courses. The purpose of the activity is to help…
Building Supportive Classroom Communities with Peer Review
Peer Review exercises provide an opportunity for students to practice giving and responding to constructive feedback and can also be a great way to build classroom camaraderie. While peer review can also be challenging in practice, some research-based strategies for…
ENG 100/110 Resource: Handout on Thesis Statements
In this post, please find a handout for teaching thesis statements. While I pair this handout with Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria,” feel free to make adjustments based on your own syllabi / needs!
Purposeful posting: building robust discussion forums
Robust discussion forums can increase usefulness of informal writing assignments in sections with diverse student needs and across modalities. Students post for classmates to read and discuss in asynchronous, synchronous, and in-person classes. Posting for classmates encourages students to review…
Sample Annotated Bibliography Assignments for English 110
In this post, you’ll find sample annotated bibliography assignments appropriate to the ENG 110 level, as part of the teaching of research skills. Thank you to Professors Heidi Bollinger and Tram Nguyen for sharing these. draft-annotated-bibliography-handout nguyen-101-annotation_assignment bollinger-annotated-bibliography-assignment
A Possible Developmental English Unit on Education Themes
In this Best Practice post, you’ll find ideas from Professor Craig Bernardini about a developmental writing unit on education, suitable for use in English 93. DevelopmentalUnit
Compare-Contrast Assignment: Eng 242 with possibilities for 110 or 111
Thanks to Professor Craig Bernardini for sharing this compare and contrast assignment, designed for his Writing About Music elective. The Springsteen lesson, he notes, would be adaptable for ENG 110 or 111 as well. ENG 242_Compare_Contrast
Eng 110 Study Guides to Classic Texts: Marx, King, Thoreau
Thanks to Professor Craig Bernardini for this contribution to the TLC, a set of “study guides and classwork for some classic expository writings”: Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.”…
English 111 Resource: A Take-Home Formal Essay Analyzing Drama
Here is a sample English 111 take-home essay assignment about Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. The author of this assignment, Professor Bollinger, finds that it “works well because it asks students to make predictions based on evidence…
English 110 Sample In-Class Question with Prep Handout
These documents come courtesy of Professor Bollinger and her English 110 course, which is themed around food. She has used this in-class writing question on analyzing a print advertisement, and has used the accompanying handout to prepare students for the…
