The Top Twenty
Editing Quiz 1: “Thinking Globally by Eating Locally”
Editing Quiz 2: “Plagiarism in the Age of the Internet”
1: Expectations for College Writing
Video: “Lessons from informal writing”
Video: “Something to learn from each other”
2: Rhetorical Situations
Video: “Pay attention to what you're interested in”
Video: “Developing a sense of audience”
Video: “Looking for the essential points”
Exercise: Storyboards on rhetorical situations
3: Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
Video: “Writing processes”
Video: “Brain mapping”
Video: “Getting ideas from social media”
Video: “You just have to start”
Video: “This will take longer than I thought”
Video: “It’s hard to delete things”
Video: “Filling in the gaps”
Student Writing: Early draft (Emily Lesk)
Exercise: Storyboards on working thesis
4: Reviewing, Revising, and Editing
Video: “Lessons from being a peer reviewer”
Video: “Lessons from peer review”
Video: “Revision happens”
Exercise: Storyboard on being a peer reviewer
Exercise: Storyboard on getting help from peer reviewers
Exercise: Storyboards on revising and editing
Student Writing: Early draft (Emily Lesk)
Student Writing: Final draft (Emily Lesk)
Student Writing: Reflective blog post (Thanh Nguyen)
Student Writing: Reflective cover letter (James Kung)
5: Developing Paragraphs
Topic sentences and supporting details
6: Working with Others
Video: “Working with other people”
Tutorial: Word processing
7: Reading Critically
Tutorial: Active reading
Student Writing: Annotations of scholarly article (Sanchez, Lum)
Exercise: Storyboards on Reading Critically
Student Writing: Critical analysis essay (Shuqiao Song)
LearningCurve: Critical Reading
LearningCurve: Topics and Main Ideas
8: Analyzing Arguments
Tutorial: Reading visuals for audience
Tutorial: Reading visuals for purpose
Student Writing: Rhetorical analysis (Milena Ateyea)
LearningCurve: Argument
9: Constructing Arguments
Video: “Facing a challenging argument”
Student Writing: Argument project (Benjy Mercer-Golden)
10: Preparing for a Research Project
Video: “Researching something exciting”
11. Conducting Research
Tutorial: Online research tools
12: Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
Student Writing: Annotated bibliography (Tony Chan)
Student Writing: Reflective annotated bibliography (Nandita Sriram)
Student Writing: Synthesis project (Caroline Warner)
Exercise: Storyboards on synthesis
LearningCurve: Evaluating, integrating, and acknowledging sources (APA)
LearningCurve: Evaluating, integrating, and acknowledging sources (MLA)
13: Integrating Sources
Student Writing: Synthesis project (Caroline Warner)
LearningCurve: Evaluating, integrating, and acknowledging sources (APA)
LearningCurve: Evaluating, integrating, and acknowledging sources (MLA)
14: Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Tutorial: Do I need to cite that?
LearningCurve: Evaluating, integrating, and acknowledging sources (APA)
LearningCurve: Evaluating, integrating, and acknowledging sources (MLA)
15: Writing a Research Project
Video: “When to stop researching”
17: Presentations
Tutorial: Presentations
Video: “If I were in the audience”
Video: “Looking for the essential points”
Video: “You want them to hear you”
Video: “Presentation is performance”
Student Writing: Presentation (Shuqiao Song)
18: Communicating in Other Media
Student Writing: Fundraising Web page (Dart)
Tutorial: Photo editing with GIMP
Tutorial: Audio editing with Audacity
19: Academic Work in Any Discipline
Video: “Improving with practice”
20: Writing for the Humanities
Student Writing: Close reading of poetry (Bonnie Sillay)
21: Writing for the Social Sciences
Student Writing: Literature review, psychology (Tawnya Redding)
Student Writing: Public health project (Martha Bell)
22: Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences
Student Writing: Lab report, chemistry (Allyson Goldberg)
Student Writing: Biology literature review (Joanna Hays)
23: Writing for Business
Video: “Writing for the real world”
Student Writing: Résumés (Lange)
Tutorial: Job search and personal branding
25: Portfolios
Student Writing: Reflective cover letter (Kung)
26: Writing to Make Something Happen in the World
Student Writing: Fundraising Web page (Justin Dart)
Student Writing: Pitch package (Deborah Jane/Jamie Burke)
27: Writing to the World
Video: “Writing for the real world”
29: Language Variety
Video: “Correctness in context”
30: Word Choice
Student Writing: Reflective blog post (Thanh Nguyen)
LearningCurve: Word choice
31: Dictionaries, Vocabulary, and Spelling
LearningCurve: Vocabulary
32: MLA Style
Tutorial : How to cite a book in MLA style
Tutorial: How to cite an article in MLA style
Tutorial: How to cite a database in MLA style
Tutorial: How to cite a Web site in MLA style
Student Writing: MLA-style research project (David Craig)
33: APA Style
Tutorial : How to cite a book in APA style
Tutorial: How to cite an article in APA style
Tutorial: How to cite a database in APA style
Tutorial: How to cite a Web site in APA style
Student Writing: APA-style research project (Martha Bell)
34: Chicago Style
Student Writing: Chicago-style research project (Amanda Rinder)
35: CSE Style
Student Writing: CSE-style research project (Joanna Hays)
36: Parts of Speech
LearningCurve: Nouns and pronouns
LearningCurve: Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
LearningCurve: Prepositions and conjunctions
LearningCurve: Prepositions for multilingual writers
37: Parts of Sentences
LearningCurve: Sentence structure for multilingual writers
LearningCurve: Verbs for multilingual writers
38: Nouns and Noun Phrases
LearningCurve: Articles and nouns for multilingual writers
39: Verbs
LearningCurve: Verbs
LearningCurve: Verbs for multilingual writers
LearningCurve: Active and passive voice
40: Subject-Verb Agreement
LearningCurve: Subject-verb agreement
41: Pronouns
LearningCurve: Pronouns
42: Adjectives and Adverbs
LearningCurve: Sentence structure for multilingual writers
43: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
LearningCurve: Prepositions for multilingual writers
44: Shifts
LearningCurve: Shifts
45: Parallelism
LearningCurve: Parallelism
46: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
LearningCurve: Comma splices and fused sentences
47: Fragments
LearningCurve: Fragments
48: Modifier Placement
LearningCurve: Modifiers
50: Concise Writing
LearningCurve: Active and Passive voice
51: Coordination and Subordination
LearningCurve: Coordination and subordination
54: Commas
LearningCurve: Commas
55: Semicolons
LearningCurve: Semicolons and Colons
57: Apostrophes
LearningCurve: Apostrophes
59: Other Punctuation
LearningCurve: Other Punctuation
60: Capital Letters
LearningCurve: Capital letters