English 1010: Composition 1 Cause and Effect Essay
(View Complete Item Description)This is a cause and effect essay assignment for use with a composition I class.
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English 1010: Composition 1 Argument Essay
(View Complete Item Description)This is an assignment for an argument essay to be used in a composition I class.
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English 1010: Composition 1 Proposal Essay
(View Complete Item Description)This is an assignment for a proposal essay to be used in a composition I class.
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English 1010: Essay: Finding Bias / Cultural Stereotypes
(View Complete Item Description)This assignment allows students to analyze a bias by agreeing or disagreeing with a speaker. There is a provided podcast episode, but we encourage instructors to select their own in the realm of the course.
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English 1010: Essay: Analyze an Argumentative Question
(View Complete Item Description)This assignment is an introduction to argumentative writing for early college-level students. This assignment provides a basis for discussing argument as a genre of writing and allows for the introduction of research and MLA format including Work Cited and intext citation.
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The Formal Argument: A historical controversy
(View Complete Item Description)This writing assignment--the formal argument--requires students to use the comparison/contrast mode to support a stand on a controversial historial issue, along with material from sources chosen by their instructor.
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Combining Rhetorical Modes: The Profile Essay
(View Complete Item Description)This writing assignment--The Profile Essay--requires students to use a variety of rhetorical modes to support a thesis statement.
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Video: Division and Classification
(View Complete Item Description)This video presents "division and classification" as a rhetorical mode. Students can select a captioned version, an un-captioned version, and/or a full transcript.
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Video: Comparing and Contrasting
(View Complete Item Description)This video presents "comparison and contrast" as a rhetorical mode. Students can select a captioned version, an uncaptioned version, and/or a full transcript.
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Video: Reading Comparison and Contrast
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture reviews "comparison and contrast" as a rhetorical mode by indentifying it in reading selections. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a text transcript.
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Video: Narrating
(View Complete Item Description)This video presents "narration" as a rhetorical mode. Students can select a captioned version, an uncaptioned version, and/or a full transcript.
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Video: Using Facts and Examples
(View Complete Item Description)This video explains how facts and short examples can be used to illustrate a point in composition.
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Video: Describing
(View Complete Item Description)This video presents "description" as a rhetorical mode. Students can select a captioned version, an uncaptioned version, or a full transcript.
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Video: Defining
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture presents "Definition" as a rhetorical mode. The lecture is offered in three different formats: a video without captions, a video with captions, and a full transcript.
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Video: Illustration--the basics
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture presents Illustration as a rhetorical mode for composition. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full text transcript.
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Video: Reading for Cause and Effect
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture reviews "cause and effect" analysis as a rhetorical mode by indentifying it in reading selections. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a text transcript.
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Video: Writing about Process
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture presents Process Analysis as a rhetorical mode for composition. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a text transcript.
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Video: Figurative Language
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture introduces figurative language or "figures of speech"--including metaphor, simile, and personification--and provides examples of their use in everyday, literary, and academic writing. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video with captions, video without captions, and a text transcript.
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Video: Using Abstract and Concrete Language
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture defines and distinguishes between abstract and concrete language, explaining how to use both effectively in composition.
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Video: Saying What You Mean
(View Complete Item Description)This lecture will discuss common grammar errors and stylistic weaknesses in college students' writing--including problems like run-ons, misplaced and dangling modifiers, and illogical tense shifts--and will suggest ways to revise confusing sentences and paragraphs. The lecture is offered here in three different formats: video without captions, video with captions, and a full transcript.
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