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Writing For The Social Sciences Course Calendar, Sarah Z. Perez

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This ZTC syllabus daily course calendar for English 210 classes, "Writing for the Social Sciences" focuses on identifying culture, research, and fieldwork writing skills.

Writing For The Humanities And The Arts, Olivia Wood

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This is the syllabus, course calendar, and grading contract used for Olivia Wood's section of ENGL 210: Writing in the Humanities and the Arts at City College in Spring 2023. Students write opinion editorials in the first unit, research a genre of their choosing and create a "genre guide" to help others write in that genre during the second unit, and then complete a multimodal project in the third unit, perhaps using their own or a classmate's genre guide to assist them.

Syllabus For Writing For The Social Sciences, Brenna E. Crowe

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A writing class designed for students pursuing degrees in the social sciences—the major assignments are a "career builder" where student practice rhetoric with professional writing on job searches, a literature review, a public awareness campaign, an informational interview, and a portfolio.

First-Year Writing: Research Proposal Assignment Sheet And Worksheet, Melanie Mcnulty

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This is a research proposal assignment, including a student worksheet, for a first-year composition classroom. This assignment is used as part of the inventive stages of the first-year research essay. It allows students an introduction to a new genre along with the opportunity to practice college-level research. The proposal acts as a tool for students to work towards developing a thesis driven essay. The worksheet helps guide students through this new genre by offering a template for content. This proposal works as a pedagogical tool allowing the instructor to offer meaningful feedback to guide the student through the critical thinking …

Fiqws Composition: People, David Stoler

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A week by week syllabus that includes instructions for student groups to create an on-line "guide book" instead of a basic portfolio.

Film/Tv Response & Critique, Janelle Poe

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This extra credit assignment was designed for a joint humanities course in English and Black Studies, combining first-year writing and an introductory survey of African American Literature. Throughout the semester, students are encouraged to complete extra credit assignments, such as this film/tv review, to earn additional points (up to 5%).

Combining rhetorical analysis with applied research, students have a list of films or television shows to choose from, as well as the ability to select their own related media, and write a response that includes a synopsis, analysis of plot, character development and themes, and personal response to the text …

Eng 201a: Writing Across The Disciplines Textbook, Steven Bookman

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This textbook is part of an OER Grant for Prof. Bookman's ENG 201A Writing in the Disciplines class in 2019. The emphasis of this class is to have students work on different types of writing with different audiences. Multimodal writing is incorporated into each assignment. The topics for each assignment focus on current news, social media, and personal branding.

The Prince -- Brief Synopsis -- Powerpoint, Zach Davidson

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This is a very brief PowerPoint covering some key ideas in Machiavelli's THE PRINCE.

Writing For The Humanities And Arts, Shamecca A. Harris

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This dynamic English Composition course asks students to both create and engage with texts, in a variety of forms, that demonstrate how culture and personal experience inform a writer’s work. In this class, students will read and write voraciously about social, political, economic and cultural issues that influence their lived experiences and use the conventions of multiple genres to both reflect and respond to the times in which they live. Moreover, they will also consciously consider what it means to write academically at the college level through regular self-reflection and revision. In doing so, students will strengthen their rhetorical knowledge …

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

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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 …

City College English 11000, Thomas Collins

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This is a syllabus for a zero-textbook-cost section of City College's English 11000, a first-year composition course.