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How to Analyze an Op Ed, Class Exercise for ENA 101 by Monica B. Sanning
Learning Objectives Students will understand the claims of an opinion piece and the evidence to support those claims. Students will develop reading strategies and improve comprehension. Students will have previously read the article and written a summary on it. Student will consider how to support their own ideas with evidence. Time Required 60 minutes Materials…
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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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Introduction to Critical Reading for Faculty by Evelyn Burg and Anita Baksh
(See student centered video on critical reading and improving thinking skills) Introduction Good reading skills are a central element in solid writing, especially when research is involved. This ALP class (ENA 101) allows students to strengthen critical reading skills and improve writing by allowing for more time on task and full explication. There are different…
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Critical Reading Activity and Food Memory Writing Assignment by Anita Baksh and Evelyn Burg
Learning Outcomes This lesson: allows students to practice critical reading skills such as annotation introduces students to techniques for reading literary texts and analyzing literary devices including imagery and metaphor prepares students to write a short narrative essay Materials: Excerpt from Esmerelda Santiago’s When I was Puerto Rican: “Prologue: How To Eat a Guava” Part…
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Introduction to Improving Thinking Skills by Evelyn Burg and Anita Baksh
Improving Thinking Skills–Critical Reading Click below to download the “Critical Reading” file (PowerPoint)
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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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