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Self-Listening & Envisioning Audience Exercise & Assignment, Jacob Kose

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This assignment and exercise encourages students to pick a formative story, artifact, individual, or moment in their acquisition of language and/or literacy. Students record themselves telling this story, then type that recording, and make choices about how to edit that text.Instructors may invite students to read these aloud, and/or peer edit. Students may also submit reflections and comment on each others' reflection.

First Year Composition Syllabus, Krystal M. Orwig

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English syllabus for college level first-year writing students.

Fiqws Killer Stories Syllabus For Writing Section, Serhiy Metenko, Serhiy Metenko

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This syllabus informs the students of the course and their expected deliverables.

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

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The Double Entry Journal is a note-taking technique for English Composition courses that encourages students to become active readers.

Anth 210: Anthropology Of East Asia, Tomomi Emoto

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No abstract provided.

Engl 351: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Duncan Faherty

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This is a syllabus for an OER version of a Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature undergraduate course.

Engl 200: Writing About Writing (The Problem Of The University), Flora De Tournay

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"The Problem of the University" is a (largely) open education syllabus that marries a criticality of/with the university as a site and space of knowledge making and knowledge suppression with a metacognitive writing approach for undergraduate students. The syllabus' contents include texts from bell hooks, Paolo Freire, Derrida, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, among others.

Complete and updated syllabus available at https://waboutw.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Informational Interview Assignment Prompt, Brenna E. Crowe

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An assignment that asks students to interview a person of their choosing.

Engl 157: Great Works Of Global Literature, Scott R. Kapuscinski

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Syllabus for a general education course bringing together celebrated texts by Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, and Marjane Satrapi. Survey of perspectives beginning during the "scramble for Africa" via Conrad, through postcolonial writers Achebe and Head, and finally making a connection via dehumanization to Orientalism and undoing monocultural presumptions in the near East through Satrapi's Persepolis.

Engl 211w: Intro To Nonfiction (Points Of Entry And/Or Exit Wounds), Heather Simon

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We will explore the notion of creativity as it pertains to new ways of engaging familiar topics and carving out frameworks for exploring uncharted territory. We will actively read and respond to works of creative nonfiction to enrich our understanding of structure, style, and language. Assigned readings will demonstrate how creative nonfiction can encompass a variety of forms (think: reportage, braided essay, erasure, visual essay) and draw from both research and experience to offer a unique perspective and elicit an emotional response. We will develop our own creative nonfiction toolbox through a series of reflections, creative exercise, and projects. We …

Syllabus For Com 310/Enl 313 Writing For Advertising And Public Relations, Rachel Kovacs

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Fyw: College Writing Basics, Serhiy Metenko, Jeffrey Robin

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This book is a curated version of About Writing: A Guide by
Robin Jeffrey. Select chapters from the original book have been rearranged to
follow the class schedule for the Fall 2023 FIQWS Killer Stories
course at The City College of New York. Please reference the syllabus for reading due dates.

A digital version of this textbook can be found on: https://pressbooks.cuny.edu/yourenglishprofessor/

The full textbook by Jeffrey Robin can be found here: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/aboutwriting/

Engl6360 Descriptive Linguistics For Teachers, Ramsés Ortín

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No abstract provided.