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 …

Homework due Thursday, Oct. 29 at 11:59 pm

Learning targets: critique own work and others, revision planning, global revision, active critical reading Re-read your paper from beginning to end and take notice of the comments you received. As you read, add replies to comments in which you make plans to address the reviewer’s concerns. Add comments of your own in places where you notice room for improvement. Take Read More …

Study Techniques

Most new college students use inefficient and ineffective study techniques to learn new information or skills and may be unaware of more effective study strategies. Worse, they frequently overestimate the effectiveness of the study strategies they use and underestimate the time and effort it takes to learn something with the result that they often underlearn Read More …

Reading & Writing Techniques in Everyday Language

Working With Other People’s Words Yield the floor/call up [signal changes in speakers] Take a picture [summarize] Sample [quote] Put another way [paraphrase] Riff on [elaborate] Paint a picture [describe] Frame (verb) [contextualize] Shine a spotlight [draw attention to/bring to the foreground] Put under a microscope [analyze into components] Fill the gaps [infer] Connect the Read More …