ENGL 1010: English Composition 1010

The University Libraries' collection of handouts, tutorials, and links to help you and your students work with both MLA 8 and MLA 7.

This Open Educational Resource is "designed for students to be a zero-cost, high-quality guide to academic writing, with the goal of preparing you for success in college and beyond."

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.

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.

Engage your classroom in polls using the technology they already have - their cell phones and laptops. Take quizzes, guide discussions, demonstrate surveys. Free and low cost options available for higher ed.

Create surveys to poll your class -- teach them primary research and get data (about an assignment, maybe?) to analyze in real time. The basic level is free.

Another internet-based classroom collaborative share tool that works in real time. Makes learning a game by making learners into players and encouraging focus and social learning.