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Generative AI Guidance
Image Credit: Jonathan Kemper, Unsplash The Generative AI landscape is rapidly changing. We will update guidance here, and in the Faculty Guidelines at the beginning of each semester. UPDATED August 2024 3. Other Considerations 4. Resources AI & Ethics Teaching About AI Previous Resources Shared March 2024 The CUNY Graduate Center has released “ChatGPT Guidance for…
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Working with the New Attendance Policy
In January 2024, the Department of English voted to implement a new attendance policy. This policy provides consistency across all courses in the department. As such, it also represents a compromise between many different faculty with different classroom approaches and different pedagogies. The policy provides consistency and flexibility. This policy should appear on your syllabus:…
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Developing Research Questions for ENG 101 by Paul Fess
Image Credit: Jon Tyson, Unsplash Introduction: This is my lesson plan and low-stakes assignment that introduces students to the concept of the research question. Students read the OER materials before class, complete the majority of the work of discussing and developing research questions in class, and conclude the assignment by posting and explaining their questions…
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Weekly Notes & Check-In Assignment for ENA / ENG 101 by J. Elizabeth Clark
Marissa Grootes, Unsplash About this assignment (note to instructors): This assignment integrates reading and writing by providing a structure for students to take and share notes about what they have been studying. It also encourages them to return to notes taken in class and to rethink and revise the notes that are significant to them.…
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Connecting Reading to Writing Topic Sentences and Thesis Statements for ENA 101 by Marisa Klages-Bombich
Image Credit: John Barkiple, Unsplash Faculty Facing content: Goal: Integrating Reading and Writing Rationale: Students in ENA 101 appear to struggle greatly with reading in many arenas. In particular, in my experience students have trouble selecting appropriate source material to support their specific points, instead defaulting simply to any source that they find tangentially related…
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Analyzing Quotations for Close Reading, Reading Comprehension, Student Engagement and Interaction in ENA 101 by Michelle Pacht
Narrative Description (for faculty) This in-class small group assignment is designed to address several areas that ENA 101 students often find challenging: close reading, reading comprehension, student engagement and interaction, and a sense of ownership during class activities. Students are asked to delve into a short quotation from an ENG 101 assigned reading, modeling and…
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Close Reading & Analysis: An Assignment to Support the Move from ENA/G101 to ENG102 by Leah Richards
Image Credit: Koshu Kunii, Unsplash Timeline: late in semester, almost entirely in class; we’ll take as long as we need for each part Text: a short work of social issue/social protest fiction (or poetry) that aligns with class themes; story will be printed out, with generous margins and space between lines to facilitate writing all…
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Using Comparison to Support Analysis in ENA 101 by Christopher Schmidt
Image Credit: Markus Spiske, Unsplash This lesson teaches students to use definition and comparison to support basic analysis. In small groups, students perform a pre-writing activity using a chart with definitions. Working individually, they will then write sentences structured by the comparison developed in the chart. Students are meant to emerge with an understanding of…
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ENA 101 Reading Logs by Jennifer Baumgartner
Image Credit: Patrick Tomasso, Unsplash The goal of this project is to support ENA students in working with texts for the larger 101 class by scaffolding the process of analysis through a deep dive into the author, the intent of the piece, and any source used within the larger text. Often, students with weaker reading…
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High-Stakes Career Research Paper for ENG 103 by Ting Man Tsao
Image Credit: Eric Prouzet, Unsplash Career Research Paper Write a research essay of about 2,000 words describing your education and career goals, the basic information of the career you are interested in, the challenges that you are facing or will face as you pursue your goals, and the questions and doubts you may have. This…
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Understanding the Audience and Learning How to Write for Each Specific Audience Type for ENG 259 by Nilo Bermeo
OER Material Used: Technical Writing pdf by Gross et al.https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/part/2-audience-analysis/ Book Section – Chapter 2 – Audience Analysis Overview of Chapter Names and defines types of audiences (Experts, Technicians, Executives, and Non-specialists) Details the needs and interests of each type of audience Explains how to adapt to whatever audience type you encounter Non-OER Reading Material…
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The Revision Process and Applied Grammar for ENG 101 by Misun Dokko
For a unit on revision, students revise their first and second high stakes papers during the last two weeks of class. As an introduction to this unit, students reflect on their past experiences with revision, learn the definition of revision (in contrast to proofreading), and get familiar with four objectives of revision (follow original directions,…
Teaching Writing at LaGuardia
Author: J. Elizabeth Clark
