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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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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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Developing Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences, and Ideas for ENG 101 by Lalit Bajaj
To the Instructor: The goal of this exercise is to help students develop thesis statements, topic sentences, and ideas that belong in their respective paragraphs. I developed this idea after reading the text, Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence, found here, as part of O.E.R. In this exercise, students will read chapter 3, “Constructing…
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Devising Research Questions / Using Questions to Derive Topics and Statements of Argument for ENG 101 by Kelly I. Aliano
This is a LOW-STAKES ACTIVITY. The follow-up activity, which asks students to take their answers to the questionnaire and submit it as a final paper proposal, is a high-stakes activity. Review “Asking Questions” in College Writing https://www.oercommons.org/courses/collegewriting/view Put the question frames (who, what, when, where, why, and how) on the board Have students engage in…
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ENG 103 Sources Activity by Kelly I. Aliano
This activity took place over three weeks of our course, from Week Six through Week Eight. Learning Objectives: Practice using the internet to find sources Practice using the library databases to find sources Learn how to evaluate sources based on quality and relevance Begin developing citation skills PART I: Asynchronous Research Activity Read ALL entries…
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Integrated Reading and Writing Assignment Sequence for ENG/A 101 by Dominique Zino
Course theme: “Literacies of Power” From Deborah Brandt’s article “Sponsors of Literacy” CCC 49.2 (May 1998): “Sponsors, as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way.…
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