Tag: Analysis
College Writing, Procrastination, and Music
This multi-genre assignment asks students to first explore how much they know their tendencies to procrastinate in a personal essay, then to interview a peer about their respective writing processes, and finally, to compare their own personal essay and an analysis of their interview in a cover letter.
Emailing in Academic Context
An assignment that asks students to compose several short versions of an email for different audiences and perform a brief analysis of the differences between the emails.
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Grammar as Meaning in ‘Dear John’ Letters
Students are often intimidated by grammar because they're led to believe it's a case of 'right' or 'wrong.' Some students get so caught up...
A Paraphrasing PowerPoint
A PowerPoint presentation explaining what paraphrasing is, how to paraphrase, and an in-class activity for paraphrasing.
Critical Etymology
A brief description of a critical etymology writing assignment for a 200-level Introduction to Criticism and Theory course