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Approaching Big Projects Handout PDF
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Approaching Big Projects Handout PDF
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When working on longer or more important writing projects, writers often face many of the same issues commonly discussed in connection with writer’s block: information, order, insight, and need. These, combined with the pressures we feel about now having to write texts that are not only longer but also higher stakes projects, often make projects seem overly intimidating. From the very beginning of your work on a thesis, article, dissertation, or book project, you must take steps to minimize the issues that would slow you down or prevent you from finishing.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
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Provider:
Auburn University
Date Added:
10/12/2022
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Arguing Through Writing
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Arguing Through Writing is heavily adapted from the Lumen Learning English Composition 2 book on the SUNY OER list of texts. The textbook focuses on the writing process, as well as rhetorical modes. Emphasis is on the modes of causal analysis, argument, definition, and classification. MLA style and academic writing moves are featured. The textbook would be appropriate for either college-level Composition 1 or 2. The text features readings for each of the modes, as well as historical and contemporary texts in a reader section. The original version of this book was released under a CC-BY license and is copyright by Lumen Learning. It was then developed in March 2020 by Joshua Dickinson, Associate Professor of English at Jefferson Community College in Watertown, NY. The changes to this book listed are released under a CC-BY-SA license and are copyright by Joshua Dickinson of Jefferson Community College in Watertown, NY.

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Arguing Through Writing covers college-level writing, basic research, and argumentation with a combination of contemporary, historical, and classical writing models. The text focuses on classification, definition, causal analysis, and argumentation, working with these writing modes and pairing those with relevant texts. Several chapters are devoted to playing the writing game and knowing its moves. Visual arguments, MLA style, preparing annotated bibliographies, and film analysis are covered. The reader includes selections from Michel de Montaigne, Steven Pinker, H. G. Wells' history, Flannery O'Connor, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gordon Allport, and Stephen Leacock.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1951/71291

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
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Assessment
Textbook
Author:
Dickinson Joshua
Date Added:
04/19/2021
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Argument & Critical Thinking
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Argument & Critical Thinking
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In this learning area, you will learn how to develop an argumentative essay and stronger critical thinking skills. This learning area will help you develop your arguments, understand your audience, evaluate source material, approach arguments rhetorically, and avoid logical fallacies. Here, you’ll also learn about evaluating other arguments and creating digital writing projects related to your argument.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
Excelsior University
Provider Set:
Excelsior University Online Writing Lab
Date Added:
11/06/2018
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Argumentative Writing
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Argumentative Writing
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This mini-lesson focuses on the main parts of creating an argument in writing. This lesson supports the South Carolina College and Career Ready ELA Standard for 7th grade: Writing 1.1.

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Composition and Rhetoric
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Lesson
Author:
Ryan Tavenner
Date Added:
03/11/2023
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Argument in Political Cartoons
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This lesson involves students exploring political cartoons and analyzing the argument being made.  Students will work in groups to build skills, then they will get an assignment to practice the skill on their own.

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Communication
Composition and Rhetoric
Reading Informational Text
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Christa Galvin
Date Added:
02/18/2022
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Arguments in Context
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An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Short Description:
Arguments in Context is a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking that covers all the basics in student-friendly language. Intended for use in a semester-long course, the text features classroom-tested examples and exercises that have been chosen to emphasize the relevance and applicability of the subject to everyday life. Three themes are developed as the text proceeds from argument identification and analysis, to the standards and techniques of evaluation: (i) the importance of asking the right questions, (ii) the influence of biases, cognitive illusions, and other psychological factors, and (iii) the ways that social situations and structures can enhance and impoverish our thinking. On this last point, the text includes sustained discussion of disagreement, cooperative dialogue, testimony, trust, and social media. Overall, the text aims to equip readers with a set of tools for working through important decisions and disagreements, and to help them become more careful and active thinkers.

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Arguments in Context is a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking that covers all the basics in student-friendly language. Intended for use in a semester-long course, the text features classroom-tested examples and exercises that have been chosen to emphasize the relevance and applicability of the subject to everyday life. Three themes are developed as the text proceeds from argument identification and analysis, to the standards and techniques of evaluation: (i) the importance of asking the right questions, (ii) the influence of biases, cognitive illusions, and other psychological factors, and (iii) the ways that social situations and structures can enhance and impoverish our thinking. On this last point, the text includes sustained discussion of disagreement, cooperative dialogue, testimony, trust, and social media. Overall, the text aims to equip readers with a set of tools for working through important decisions and disagreements, and to help them become more careful and active thinkers.

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Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Muhlenberg College
Author:
Thaddeus Robinson
Date Added:
11/18/2021
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Ashurbanipal's Library
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Ashurbanipal's Library
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Students use a source text from IEW's Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons to write a two-paragraph essay about Ashurbanipal's Library from a keyword outline. There is also a linked art history video from OER Commons entitled "Palace Decoration of Ashurbanipal" to give more interesting background on King Ashurbanipal.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
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Activity/Lab
Author:
Julie Dameron
Date Added:
11/24/2021
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Assigning Reflective Writing Prompts in Lab Settings Handout PDF
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Assigning Reflective Writing Prompts in Lab Settings Handout PDF
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As teachers, we ask students to reflect so that they can practice critical thinking, see connections between different learning experiences, and synthesize information with their future or professional goals. Reflective writing fosters students’ awareness of their habits of thinking and helps them to develop and solidify productive ways of approaching problems. Students experiencing labs might be able to describe what they are seeing, but they need guidance from more experienced scientific professionals to reflect on lab experiences.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Auburn University
Date Added:
10/13/2022
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Assignment: Annotated Outline for Literature Review
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Assignment: Annotated Outline for Literature Review
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This is an assignment handout designed to guide students through the process of organizing their thoughts as well as the information gathered during the research process for a literature review.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Mary Worthington
Date Added:
07/26/2023
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Assignment Sequence
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WR 121 Critical Thinking and Writing Assignment Sequence

Course Overview

This is a first year college composition course, focusing on critical thinking and writing. I designed the content and writing prompts as a progression of examining knowledge and each assignment seeks to expand ways of thinking and by extension, ways of writing.

WR 121 College Composition

Offers broad preparation for both academic writing and professional communication. Includes composing for a variety of rhetorical situations, writing for both oneself, and for external audiences. Provides self-guided learning opportunities alongside more structured opportunities for practice with support as needed.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Reading
Author:
Sally Badawi
Date Added:
01/22/2021
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