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Script for Introduction to Improving Thinking Skills for Students Video / PowerPoint
For ENA 101 Faculty in the small-group classroom: Script for the intro to critical reading video English 101 requires students to write a research paper. Good reading skills are a central element in solid writing, especially when research is involved. This ALP class strengthens critical reading skills and improves writing allowing for more time on…
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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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Pre-writing and Critical Thinking by Anita Baksh and Evelyn Burg
Brainstorming and Gathering Information Using Concept Maps Brainstorming ideas and gathering information are important parts of prewriting, the beginning phase of the writing process. A concept map is a helpful tool that allows writers to collect and organize information, visualize an overview of a topic, particularly a debate, understand relations between items, obtain ideas to…
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Three Modes of Writing: Narrative, Exposition, and Argument (PowerPoint & Activity) by Evelyn Burg and Anita Baksh
Click to download the PowerPoint Slides for Three Modes of Writing Worksheet for Three Modes of Writing: Narrative, Exposition, and Argument (Accompanies Google Slides: “Three Modes of Literary Expression”) Lesson and Low-Stakes Activity (1 hour) Learning Goal: The accompanying slide show offers a basic lesson on the three types of written expression, with class participation…
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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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Introduction to Academic Discourse for Students by Marisa A. Klages-Bombich
“Introducing Academic Discourse” by Marisa A. Klages-Bombich (Video)
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Deceleration: Applying Past Knowledge (Activity) by Lalit Bajaj
What do I already know about writing? What assumptions do I have about writing in college? What have I learned about college writing that I didn’t know before?
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Deceleration: 10-Minute Exercise–A Noteworthy Experience (Activity) by Lalit Bajaj
Directions: When you entered college, what was one noteworthy (important to you) experience you had? What did you learn from this experience? This experience doesn’t need to be big, but it does have to be an experience that taught you something. The experience can be as simple as meeting a fellow student or going to the…
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Deceleration and Habits of Mind in ENA 101 by Lalit Bajaj
While progress in the writing is an integral part of a student’s success in ENA 101, there is some connection of a student’s mastery of the writing process with how they would potentially advance to that mastery, using “Habits of Mind.” According to Arthur L Costa and Bena Kallick, in Habits of Mind: A Developmental…
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Habits of Mind Homework (Activity) by Rochell Isaac
The Habits of Mind are an identified set of 16 problem solving, life related skills, necessary to effectively operate in society and promote strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity and craftsmanship. The understanding and application of these 16 Habits of Mind serve to provide the individual with skills to work through real life situations that equip…
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Habits of Mind Activity by Rochell Isaac
Habits of Mind Activity This activity might work as an ice breaker early in the semester. Provide students with an overview of a strength, then introduce students to Habits of Mind. You may also provide student with a visual chart. You can access a Habits of Mind Chart Here. According to CliftonStrengths (Gallup’s assessment tool to measure talent themes), “A strength…
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