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Breaking Away from the Traditional Lab Report: A Technical Email as a Writing Assignment in an Engineering Laboratory Course

Prompt, 2019
Engineering laboratory courses often contain laboratory reports as writing assignments to be used as an assessment and grading tool for the course. While laboratory report writing is a useful skill, this article discusses an assignment which was used as
Matthew Rhudy
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"The One Who Knows the Tricks Wins the Day": Cultivating Mētis in an Undergraduate, Mixed-major Professional Writing Course

Prompt, 2019
This assignment demonstrates how writing instructors can cultivate students' mētis, a flexible and adaptive way of thinking, by requiring participation in naturalistic rhetorical situations that arise outside the classroom.
Hilary Sarat-St. Peter
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First-Year Writing: Research Proposal Assignment Sheet and Worksheet [PDF]

, 2021
This is a research proposal assignment, including a student worksheet, for a first-year composition classroom. This assignment is used as part of the inventive stages of the first-year research essay.
McNulty, Melanie
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Cultivating a Global Perspective through Refugee Narratives

Prompt, 2018
The intention of this assignment is to use stories of refugee experience to cultivate a global perspective in the classroom. The final project of an intermediate college writing course (sophomore and junior level), this assignment asked students to ...
Michael T. MacDonald
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Collaborative reflection and trauma : narrative writing as a healing intervention

, 2021
Narrative writing as a healing intervention involves the repeated recounting of a traumatic event. Research shows the benefits of narrative writing as an intervention for posttraumatic stress and the development of posttraumatic growth.
Denejkina, Anna (R19494), Joseph, Sue
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Defining Writing Lingo

Prompt
In this project, students examine their previous definitions and associations with writing-related vocabulary and investigate the complexity of this terminology by interviewing other writers about their writing processes.
Olivia Imirie
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Revising the Faculty Manual: The Client Project in Your Backyard

Prompt, 2018
This client project is a culminating assignment in an upper-level professional writing course designed to help students understand the nature of audience-based writing in an unfamiliar writing context.
Heather Lettner-Rust
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Learner-Created Podcasts: Fostering Information Literacies in a Writing Course

Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2019
This paper describes an experimental learner-created podcasting assignment in a first-year undergraduate research skills course for professional writers.
Stephanie Bell
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Abstract Analysis and Revision Assignment Using MS Word Readability Statistics

Prompt, 2018
In teaching technical writing for nearly 20 years, I have recognized the importance of including writing assignments focused on improving students' clarity and effectiveness at the sentence level.
Julie Dyke Ford
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Understanding Mathematical Induction by Writing Analogies

Prompt, 2019
Mathematical induction has some notoriety as a difficult mathematical proof technique, especially for beginning students. In this note, I describe a writing assignment in which students are asked to develop, describe in detail, critique, defend, and ...
Andrew A. Cooper
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