...Sean Murray Like many a composition instructor, I have often designed writing assignments that attempt to get students forging genuine connections between the personal and the political. Yet these assignments have not always been met with overwhelming enthusiasm from my classes, to put it politely...

... writing assignments, this reading progression invites students to see race from a new perspective. In this article I share my reasons for creating this course, detail its assignments, and show how the course can help students expand their understanding of race in American society. I argue that by teaching...

... of living. Central to this effort is a writing assignment that asks students to (1) offer a research-based description of the economics of their postgraduation lives, assess on the basis of evidence drawn from Walden what Thoreau might think of their plans, then respond to Thoreau's probable views, or (2...

... for learning: success attribution, self-efficacy, expectancy value, and self-regulation. Meaningful writing assignments with a connection to students’ cultural experiences are an essential foundation for improving transfer. Specific reflective activities are detailed for analyzing emotional reactions...

... equity among first‐year students, are designed with attention to trauma‐informed approaches and a focus on process‐driven writing. Instructors address noncognitive skills with students, such as time management and note‐taking, and consider the cultural relevance of their reading and writing assignments...

...Laura Aull; Valerie Ross This article analyzes ideologies underpinning argument-based writing assignments and considers how they may contribute to a current climate of polarization. The authors suggest that the argument-based essay may be what Kenneth Burke called an unquestioned and habituated...

...Danielle Sutton Abstract The author interrogates creative-critical writing assignments from an introductory literature course (ENG 125: Literary Narrative) for concerns about “truth,” arguing that writing and reflection, especially when informed by a theoretical vocabulary, alter the way students...

... American boy has to devise his own escape from the inner city. Most important, class discussions of (as well as the writing assignments focused on) Yakin's film necessarily confront the role that class hierarchies play in America as well as the cultural myths—like the unconditional individual—that affect...

... mutually reinforce one another when taught together since they both prioritize critical thinking, close reading, and careful argumentation. This article offers a number of specific examples of in-class activities, writing assignments, and possible texts for a class that merges disability studies...

.... The article’s discussion of course assignments and contexts demonstrates how these domains are applied and provides detailed information on our experiences teaching the course. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 multimajor professional writing genre course design Works Cited...

...Carolyn Kraus In assigning her university memoir-writing class to locate documents of significance to their lives as a starting point for composing personal essays, this teacher compelled her students to search outside themselves for material—in effect, to undertake research in a genre that many...

...Margaret M. Strain; Rebecca Potter This essay argues for an interdisciplinary, team-taught approach to the Introduction to Graduate Studies course in which faculty from literary and rhetoric/writing studies model the intersections of both fields through course texts, assignments, and theoretical...

... One of the most common writing assignments in college-level courses is the response paper. While instructors see this assignment as accessible and straightforward, students tend to struggle with it. What does it mean to “respond” to a text? What does that look like? What does one need to know...

... with EBGCs, which were collected in the form of an end‐of‐semester memo assignment. Comprehensively, students find EBGC use to be a positive and worthwhile assessment experience. While there is a learning curve involved, students appreciate the real‐life approach to both labor and engagement on writing tasks...

... over their own writing process, more students were able to work on the writing skills associated with the assignments and think about how these assignments helped them think about their own writing process. Implementing ungrading can be complicated for other reasons too, as demonstrated by some...

... on an experiment in using a writing course to teach critical thinking skills and vice versa, with special emphasis on helping students to get beyond their aversion to and distrust of argument. The course assigned short argument analyses, an exercise in literary interpretation, and a research paper in for students...

... metacognitive work that journals contribute. Through the examination of a corpus of student texts, this article argues for reenvisioning the work of the reading journal, demonstrating how this commonplace assignment contributes to students’ recognition of reading-writing connections and describes a new lens...

... classroom. Inspired by the work of creative writing academics such as George Kalamaras and Sandra Young, these strategies include using the workshop session, classroom readings and formal assignments to foreground matters of representation. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Bean, John. 2007...

... students to engage in close observation of and dialogue with a natural object. One particular assignment directs students to observe “a milkweed pod, a crab leg, a walnut husk—over a week's time,” and to “address [themselves] to the object; ask it questions, let it answer back; write down the dialogue...

.... In the end, writing autoethnography allowed students to mix their traditional academic training with personal experiences in a way that helped them reach a higher form of learning. They saw research not just as means to complete an assignment, but also as a method to realize a more profound sense of self...