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last.updated 10.13.12

Designing Writing Assignments

Purpose

Composing, as we know, is central to the composition course. But the question we have to ask is: what are we going to ask students to write? what relationship do I want to create among my assignments? Then once we have addressed these question, we have to ask ourselves how are we going to articulate the assignment in a way that makes it understandable and accessible to all of our students? During today's class we will work on answering these questions.

Before Class

• Read WPA-L discussion on the Five Paragraph Essay [BB]
• Read Reid & Kroll, "Designing and Assessing..." [Journal of Second Language Writing, 4.1]
• Read Evans, "An Afrocentric Multicultural Writing Project" [BB]
• Submit Blog Entry #5 on Blogger by the beginning of class
• Note  Last Day to Drop Classes is today

Guest Instructor–Sarah Spangler

The following Prezi presentation will be used to guide today's lesson.