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Teaching Writing at LaGuardia


Category: ENG 101

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    Connecting Courses with OER

    In recent years, the Writing Program has worked hard to understand how our writing sequence builds from developmental writing to research and technical writing.  One of the core objectives in our writing sequence is critical and analytical reading. The following cross-course module demonstrates how critical and analytical reading can be scaffolded from course to course,…

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    OER Resources for ENG 101

    Curated OER Texts 88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition and Rhetoric by Sarah Wangler and Tina Ulrich This text doesn’t really have any apparatus to it, but it is a useful collection of essays that allow a teacher to craft assignments based on texts. Among the essays included here are Adichie’s “The…

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    Cross Course Assignments

    Judith Nell Foster: Substitute Assignment for the Introductory Questionnaire This assignment is a substitute for the introductory questionnaire. Judith developed it in the Language Across the Curriculum seminar last year. She originally used it in ENG099 class with good results and lively discussion. Judith says, “When I thought about teaching students I would not be…

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    ENG 101–Composition I: An Introduction to Composition and Research

    Course Description 3 credits; 4 hoursFulfills “Pathways: Required Core” In this course students write coherent essays in varied academic formats, both in and out of class, responding to culturally diverse materials and using appropriate technology. Students focus on critical and analytical skills through reading and listening and study aspects of argumentation including formulating theses; researching…

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