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Introduction to Academic Discourse: Reading Student Samples Against a Rubric by Marisa A. Klages-Bombich
Teaching Note: This activity is a modification of the one described by Jane E. Hindman in her 1999 article “Inventing Academic Discourse: Teaching (and Learning) Marginal Poise and Fugitive Truth.” This activity works best if you can draw on a stash of former papers for your class and is best done in small groups. You…
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Introduction to Academic Discourse: Social Annotation of a Text by Marisa A. Klages-Bombich
Teaching Note: This activity is one that is useful for many different situations but works especially well in a remote or hybrid setting. It asks students to engage virtually through social annotation. For an ENA class, you might introduce the text to students prior to the ENG 101 section where you will be handling the…
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Introduction to Academic Discourse: Understanding a Writing Assignment Activity by Marisa A. Klages-Bombich
Teaching Notes: One of the issues many students have throughout college classes is that they often don’t understand what an assignment is asking of them. Slow down the class to really help students understand what your assignment is asking. For this assignment you might take part of your ENA class to ask students to read…
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Introduction to Academic Discourse: email Activity by Marisa A. Klages-Bombich
Teaching Note: This activity is modified from the article “Academic English A Conceptual Framework: Technical Report-1” by Robin Scarcerella (2003). In this report, Scarcerella specifically discusses the challenges of students who are second language English speakers in terms of academic discourse and navigating the work of being a student. She provides readers with an email…
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