Introduction to College Writing

Unit 1     Unit 2     Unit 3     Unit 4

• Basic Course Documents

  • ENG 1113 Syllabus

  • MLA Take Home Exam

  • Plagiarism Quiz

  • Basic Essay Lecture Notes

   

  • Portfolio Assignment Handout - NEW

  • MLA Paper Template (*.doc file)

  • How to Research

  • Academic Essay Guidelines

  • Plagiarism

  • Documenting WWW Sources (MLA)

  • Sentence Combining Tips

  • A Writer's Inventory

  • Topic Sentences

  • When to Use Commas

   

Introduction to College Writing

• How to E-mail a Professor by Michael Leddy

• Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing by Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney (for an MS Word formatted version, click here.)

• MLA Documentation Overview

• MLA Works Cited Example

• Essay Formatting Guidelines

 

• UNIT ONE:

  • Unit 1 Essay Assignment

  • Essay Writing Basics

  • Thesis Equation

  • Topic Generation Worksheet

  • Body Paragraph Generation Worksheet

  • Thesis Revision Worksheet

  • Introduction and Conclusion Development Worksheet

   

• Unit Two:

  • Unit 2 Essay Assignment - Updated 3/8/2010

  • Essay Development Handout - Updated 3/8/2010

  • Literacy Readings Group Work worksheet (for 3/9 and 3/11)

  • Knoblauch essay on literacy

  • Literacy in General

    • Literacy

    • National Center for Education Statistics

    • National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

    • National Institute for Literacy

    • Literacy Facts at a Glance

  • Critical Literacy

    • Critical Literacy

    • Critical Literacy (2)

    • Developing Critical Literacy (from Oprah)

  • Functional Literacy

    • Functional Literacy

    • How Educated are We: Functional Literacy and Educational Attainment

    • Our Space: Functional Literacy

    • Adult Education - Functional Literacy and Life Skills Program for State and Local Prisoners (from 1993-94 report)

  • Cultural  Literacy

    • Cultural Literacy

    • "Cultural Literacy and the Analogic Imagination" by Wessling

    • The Cultural Literacy Movement

   

• Unit Three:

  • Unit 3 Essay Assignment

  • Paper Proposal

   

• Unit FOUR:

  • Essay Assignment Handout - Due April 29, 2010 in class; April 27 - workshop day