Lesson Plan on a Common Language for Describing Writing
Lesson objective: For the class to develop a common language for discussing and evaluating writing. Learning a common language can enable students to transcend the localness of any particular...
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by Gordon Harvey Associate Director of the Expository Writing Program Harvard University This essay is used as the basis for Professor Sean O’Toole’s Lesson Plan on a Common Language for Describing...
View ArticlePassage Analysis
English 2850 Prof. O’Toole Analysis: the work of breaking down, interpreting, and commenting on the data, of saying what can be inferred from the data such that it supports an idea or thesis (is...
View ArticleResponding to Student Writing
Sean O’Toole, Baruch College sean.otoole@baruch.cuny.edu Commenting takes a lot of time, and we’re never really sure what effect, if any, they have on students. Worse-case scenario: Comments overwhelm...
View ArticleENG2150: Authenticity and Astonishment
AUTHENTICITY AND ASTONISHMENT: A COURSE IN WRITING Professor Ken L. Walker, Fall 2012 What makes something authentic? Is authenticity something to strive for? How does authenticity arrive at the truth?...
View ArticleENG 2100 Syllabus, Fall 2012
ENG 2100 English Composition: fall 2012 Prof. M. Blehl Walsh Overview This course is designed to provide you with additional preparation in writing, reading to help you improve...
View ArticleENG 2150T, Syllabus, Fall 2012
SYLLABUS ENGLISH 2150T UMWA Fall 2012 Monday & Wednesday 6:05-9:00 Rm1224 23rd Street Kathleen Lawrence Office hours: One hour before and after classes—in or near classroom Texts: The New Yorker...
View ArticleEnglish 2800 SMWB: Great Works of Literature I (Syllabus)
English 2800 SMWB: Great Works of Literature I Baruch College – Fall 2012 Mondays and Wednesdays 5:40PM-7:20PM Room #1208 (17 Lexington Avenue, The Lawrence and Eris Field Building) Instructor: Linda...
View ArticleReflective Annotated Bibliography: Commuting Toward Meaning. Baruch Faculty...
In this workshop, Professor Mark McBeth (John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Graduate Center, CUNY) shared one of his assignments and prompted us to think about our own practices as readers. “How...
View ArticleGreat Works Annotation Project Workshop, 20 November 2014
“How do you get non-majors to do research in English courses?” Professor Cheryl Smith started off the Annotation Project workshop last Thursday with this question, which motivated her to undertake the...
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