College Writing

• Intro
  • Starting out
  • Syllabus
  • Paper vs screen
  • Setting up a blog
  • Choosing a theme
• Reading
  • Why writers need to read
  • Reading strategies
    • How to Read like a Writer
    • Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources
    • How to Mark a Book
    • Writing summaries
  • Finding articles to read (or videos to watch)
  • Keeping a reading journal
• Writing
  • As rhetorical act
    • Rhetorical analysis
  • As thinking made visible
  • As process
    • Practice with prewriting strategies
    • Getting something down
    • Thoughts on peer review
    • Revision
      • Focus
      • Coherence
      • Sentences
    • Proofreading
• Remember
  • Why should anyone care about your life?
  • Memoir: samples to read
  • Memoir prompts
  • Memoir assignment
• Observe
  • What is ethnography?
  • On observation
  • Writing profiles
  • Sample Ethnographies
  • Ethnography (or ethnographic profile) assignment
• Research
  • Stages of the process
    • Finding and evaluating sources
    • Note-taking
    • Writing summaries
    • “Writing in the middle”
    • Drafting; integrating sources
    • Citation: why and how?
  • Annotation project
    • What’s an annotation?
    • Sample annotation
    • Annotation assignment
• Projects
  • Argument
    • Basics of argument
    • Types of argument
    • Finding arguable research topics
    • Structure of argument
  • Photo essay
• Portfolio
  • Formatting for portfolio
  • Portfolio cover letter assignment
  • Student sample
• Resources

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