ENGL1010: Instructor Resource Guide

While the resources on this site tend to focus on the needs of FSU instructors, there are many amazing activities and writing practices that are easily adaptable to the University of Memphis's curriculum. Not sure how to approach a lesson? Look toward the Inkwell for inspiration.

While intended for use by Dartmouth instructors, these resources are excellent for anyone in a first year writing class. The guide tackles the issues every writing instructor must face - from syllabus design to writing workshops to dealing with grammar.

Are you guilty? You may not even realize it. Take a big picture look at your teaching style.

No class is more difficult than one where no one has done the reading. Reassess the situation -- here's how to help your students come prepared.

From abstract: This article argues that writing teachers can encourage students to adopt a rhetorical perspective toward research-based writing by characterizing products of research in terms of how writers use them in their texts. It maintains that the standard nomenclature for treating sources (primary, secondary, tertiary) is anti-rhetorical and proposes an alternative: Background for materials a writer relies on for general information or for factual evidence; Exhibit for materials a writer analyzes or interprets; Argument for materials whose claims a writer engages; and Method for materials from which a writer takes a governing concept or derives a manner of working.