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Zero Textbook Low Cost Syllabus For English 2100 (Writing 1), Anne Grevenitis 2025 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Zero Textbook Low Cost Syllabus For English 2100 (Writing 1), Anne Grevenitis

Open Educational Resources

In English 2100, our focus will be on autoethnography as a genre of writing. To write an autoethnography is to examine the value of the personal and use traditional modes of research to flesh out the narrative of the self. Through diverse research methods (interviews and site observation) and a multiple-step writing process (journaling, drafting and peer reviewing), your autoethnography should make a substantive contribution, have aesthetic merit, have reflexivity, make an impact, and express a reality.


I'M Saving Money Now To Buy A Gun, Jacob Feiner 2025 Gettysburg College

I'M Saving Money Now To Buy A Gun, Jacob Feiner

Student Publications

A nonfiction story


English 11000, Spoken Adaptation Of Language And Literacy Narrative, Samantha Hernandez, Missy Watson 2025 CUNY City College

English 11000, Spoken Adaptation Of Language And Literacy Narrative, Samantha Hernandez, Missy Watson

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The Spoken Adaptation assignment builds on a previous English Composition assignment, the Language and Literacy Narrative (LLN). The LLN asks students to write a detailed narrative about a personal experience they have had with Language and Literacy. Over the course of the semester, students are required to rewrite and revise this essay a number of times. This particular assignment tasks students with transforming their written work into an oral presentation.


Grateful To The Tide, Sophia S. Chesner 2025 Gettysburg College

Grateful To The Tide, Sophia S. Chesner

Student Publications

Creative writing nonfiction piece


A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside 2025 Dartmouth College

A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media, 2025 Dartmouth College

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: The Lions of Winter, by Ty Gagne; 109° Below, a film directed by Nick Martini; Losing the Garden, by Laura Waterman; Ditch Memory, by Todd Davis; Shinrin-Yoku, by Marcyn Del Clements; You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón.


News And Notes, 2025 Dartmouth College

News And Notes

Appalachia

A Look Back at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Long-Ago Membership Practices. 350th Year Since King Philip’s War on Talcott Mountain in Connecticut. Northeast Snow Survey Feasibility Study. All Out: AMC’s Action Plan for 2025-2030.


Alpina, 2025 Dartmouth College

Alpina

Appalachia

Reports of mountaineering in the greater ranges in 2024 include President Donald Trump’s ruling that Denali be called Mount McKinley again. A flash ascent of Freerider on Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan. A century after he went missing, Andrew “Sandy” Irvine’s frozen foot encased in a boot was found on Everest. Drones and helicopters expand access to Everest. First ascent of the western ridge of Gasherbrum III. A pair climbs Pholesobi in Eastern Nepal. Climbers scale the east ridge of Lalung I in India. A new route is opened on Greenland’s east coast. In memoriam: Christopher Jones, 1939-2024.


Accidents, 2025 Dartmouth College

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the warm months of 2024 opens with thoughts on the dangers of selfies. A 38-year-old hiker encounters trouble attempting a Presidential Range traverse in early May. A man breaks his leg and with the help of a passing Appalachian Trail thru-hiker crawls 0.3 miles to a trail junction for a helicopter pickup. An 84-year-old glider operator crashes into trees on a ridge west of Mount Moosilauke. A hiker struggles to cross the swollen Wild River after a period of storms. Trail runners suddenly must call for help …


Letters, 2025 Dartmouth College

Letters

Appalachia

Carl Svenson, helicopter pilot. Questions on whether Chris Roma could have retraced his steps on a fateful winter hike, with a response from Accidents editor Sandy Stott.


Skyline Sketches: "Luckily, I Remembered My Gloves", Laura Russell 2025 Dartmouth College

Skyline Sketches: "Luckily, I Remembered My Gloves", Laura Russell

Appalachia

In 1949, a Dartmouth student described a spontaneous climb of Mount Washington in a letter home to his parents.


Skyline Sketches: The Certain Slant Of Light, Daniel Hudon 2025 Dartmouth College

Skyline Sketches: The Certain Slant Of Light, Daniel Hudon

Appalachia

Considering Emily Dickinson while climbing Mount Willard in autumn.


The "Boring Forest"? Canada's Boreal Forest Is Actually A Breathing Mass Of Life, Alicia J. M. Colson 2025 Dartmouth College

The "Boring Forest"? Canada's Boreal Forest Is Actually A Breathing Mass Of Life, Alicia J. M. Colson

Appalachia

An archeologist argues that the vast forested region of the Laurentian Plateau holds a soul and value of its own and does not deserve the disparaging attitude some hold toward it.


Matty's First Hike: Hiking Spain's Northwest Coast With A Baby And A Beagle, Katy Dycus 2025 Dartmouth College

Matty's First Hike: Hiking Spain's Northwest Coast With A Baby And A Beagle, Katy Dycus

Appalachia

New parents venture along the coast of Galicia, from the Cliffs of Loiba to O Esteiro and back, with their son in a carrier.


The Wild Winds Of Fortune: Encounters After Falling On A Gentle Acadia Path, Elissa Ely 2025 Dartmouth College

The Wild Winds Of Fortune: Encounters After Falling On A Gentle Acadia Path, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

On a familiar and well traveled path, a hiker learns how easily one can fall and what happens when people stop to help.


The New England Trail, End To End In Five Days: A Running Couple Test Their Limits, Scott Livingston 2025 Dartmouth College

The New England Trail, End To End In Five Days: A Running Couple Test Their Limits, Scott Livingston

Appalachia

A moment-by-moment narrative of a grueling run from Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire to Guilford, Connecticut from June 17 through June 22, 2020.


Barefooting The Northeast 111: A Hiker Discovers The Intensity Of Pinpricks, Grit, And Mud, Kenneth A. Posner 2025 Dartmouth College

Barefooting The Northeast 111: A Hiker Discovers The Intensity Of Pinpricks, Grit, And Mud, Kenneth A. Posner

Appalachia

Climbing without shoes in the Catskills, then the Adirondacks, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and Maine, he learned to focus on the here-and-now.


Over The Influence: Considering Scenarios Sponsored Adventure Influencers Find Themselves In, Mike Cherim 2025 Dartmouth College

Over The Influence: Considering Scenarios Sponsored Adventure Influencers Find Themselves In, Mike Cherim

Appalachia

An experienced mountain guide sketches three situations—promoting clothing, going fast with minimal gear, and making the reaching of an iconic scene look easy—where social media influencers could misinform the public.


Navigation By Smartphone: A Field Geologist Argues That Devices Complement Physical Maps, Richard Allmendinger 2025 Dartmouth College

Navigation By Smartphone: A Field Geologist Argues That Devices Complement Physical Maps, Richard Allmendinger

Appalachia

An argument that smartphones—in the right hands, and with the right app—replace gadgets like alarm clocks, cameras, and weather radios and can outpace physical maps with the right apps.


Yes, Instagram Has Led To Overcrowding In Yosemite. That's Ok: A Professional Climber Reflects On The Bad And Good Of A Tourism Spectacle, Beth Rodden 2025 Dartmouth College

Yes, Instagram Has Led To Overcrowding In Yosemite. That's Ok: A Professional Climber Reflects On The Bad And Good Of A Tourism Spectacle, Beth Rodden

Appalachia

Social media has Instagrammed the outdoors but also cultivated community. The crowds who flock to the park in February to see Horsetail Fall deserve to enjoy public lands, too.


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