Peer Review – What Should College Students Learn?

An essay is a meaning-making piece of writing in which a writer seeks to make sense of the world by exploring some particular problem or phenomenon, often through the lens of some particular idea.  The essayist tries to make connections among ideas and experiences to create knowledge. As you read your peer’s drafts, write comments to help the writer improve the global dimensions of Read More …

Homework due Sunday Nov. 3 at 11:59 pm

Learning targets: prewriting, idea development, synthesis, writing fast Make a list of 10 academic challenges that first-year college students might face in their first semester college. Choose three of those challenges to focus on. For each challenge, write a paragraph that describes the challenge in a way that readers will easily recognize it. This paragraph Read More …

Paper 4

Write a web article advising high school seniors how to thrive academically in their first-semester at college. This article can be written in an informal and engaging tone, but should draw on, link to and embed the writers, resources, concepts, skills and habits you’ve studied this semester. Your article should target one particular challenge beginning Read More …

Homework due Thursday Oct. 31 at 11:59 pm

Learning Targets: local revision, global revision Add 300 new words to your paper by elaborating on ideas in no more than two paragraphs already existing in your paper. Address local issues with your paper by editing, polishing and proofreading. Read this rubric to see what you should be cleaning up at this phase of the writing process. Use this Paper Finishing Read More …