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Fiqws The Politics Of Language (Composition Section), Sarah Z. Perez
Fiqws The Politics Of Language (Composition Section), Sarah Z. Perez
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ZTC syllabus and class calendar with assignment and text links for Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar (FIQWS) Composition class.
The Double Entry Journal, Doreen C. Bowens
The Double Entry Journal, Doreen C. Bowens
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The Double Entry Journal is a note-taking technique for English Composition courses that encourages students to become active readers.
Speed Dating Peer Review Activity, Gloria Gianoulis, Susan Rocco
Speed Dating Peer Review Activity, Gloria Gianoulis, Susan Rocco
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Peer Review of student writing in a fully online, synchronous learning environment can be challenging. By drawing on the principles of speed dating, this activity meets 3 goals for fostering student success: fosters student-student engagement, encourages student investment in peer review, and improves students' accountability for participation.
Writing For Engineers, Alexander J. Moser
Writing For Engineers, Alexander J. Moser
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Freshman Composition: Early College Initiative, Julianne Davidow
Freshman Composition: Early College Initiative, Julianne Davidow
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The purpose of this course is to provide further practice with a variety of genres that you’ll use throughout your college career and in your professional life. These genres include reflection, analysis, reporting, arguing, and self-assessment. While you likely had experience with these genres in your primary and secondary education, this class will provide you with an opportunity to expand and develop your range. In addition to exploring these genres, we will also develop our research practices to make use of City College’s virtual library.
Reflection Toolkit: Strategies For Facilitating Reflection In The Classroom, Meghmala Tarafdar, Elizabeth Digiorgio, Alison Cimino, Sebastian Murolo, Miseon Kim, Ilse Schrynemakers
Reflection Toolkit: Strategies For Facilitating Reflection In The Classroom, Meghmala Tarafdar, Elizabeth Digiorgio, Alison Cimino, Sebastian Murolo, Miseon Kim, Ilse Schrynemakers
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This Reflection Toolkit, compiled by the faculty inquiry group (FIG), includes classroom strategies for integrating reflection into one's existing syllabi. The lesson plans highlight how to encourage effective student reflections.The toolkit includes best practices to facilitate reflection in classes across the disciplines in the context of a variety of student-centered activities (including group-work, online learning, and interactive modules).
Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2150 (Writing Ii), Elizabeth Mannion
Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2150 (Writing Ii), Elizabeth Mannion
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In this class, the second of a two-course sequence in the Pathways Required Core, we’ll explore how language and other meaning-making symbols reflect the Gramercy neighborhood, home to Baruch College, particularly during the Gilded Age (1870s-1914). We’ll read literature of the period by authors with ties to this neighborhood, and study the 1913 Armory Show (which was held across the street at the 69th Regiment Armory), which blurred, challenged, and disrupted the social lines of Gilded Age New York.
Fiqws 10113 Composition For Creative Expression- Narrative Medicine, Julia R. Brown
Fiqws 10113 Composition For Creative Expression- Narrative Medicine, Julia R. Brown
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Syllabus, Assignments, & Selected Handouts (Fiqws-Writing / Architecture), Tim Dalton
Syllabus, Assignments, & Selected Handouts (Fiqws-Writing / Architecture), Tim Dalton
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This syllabus and its related course materials draw on readings, videos, and multimodal texts to teach rhetoric and argumentation to first-year writers through a varied exploration of questions of design, aesthetics, and access.
Note: This course was paired with a course in the architecture program.
Fiqws Fall 2018: Phase 2 Assignment Prompt The Exploratory Essay, Sabina Pringle, Missy Watson
Fiqws Fall 2018: Phase 2 Assignment Prompt The Exploratory Essay, Sabina Pringle, Missy Watson
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This phase two writing assignment prompt for FIQWS 10003 - HA1 WCGI History & Culture and FIQWS 10103 - HA1 Composition for WCGI History & Culture (fall 2018) provides guidelines for writing an Exploratory Essay in which students will consider the ideas of course readings and compose an essay that demonstrates their engagement with those ideas. The rhetorical purpose of this assignment is for students to demonstrate the ways in which their thinking about language and literacy has developed so far in the course, using evidence based on interpretations, ideas, and examples as well as passages from four or five …