Introduction to College Writing

Unit 1     Unit 2     Unit 3     Unit 4

• Basic Course Documents

  • ENG 1113 Syllabus - Spring 2008

  • Syllabus Contract

  • Portfolio Assignment Handout - NEW

  • MLA Paper Template (*.doc file)

  • How to Research

  • Academic Essay Guidelines

  • Plagiarism

  • Plagiarism Quiz

  • Documenting WWW Sources (MLA)

  • Sentence Combining Tips

  • A Writer's Inventory

  • Topic Sentences

  • When to Use Commas

  • Thesis Equation

   

Introduction to College Writing

• How to E-mail a Professor by Michael Leddy

• Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing by Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney (for an MS Word formatted version, click here.)

• How to Say Nothing in 500 Words by Paul Roberts

• MLA Documentation Overview

• MLA Works Cited Example

• Thesis Equation Handout

• Essay Formatting Guidelines

 

• UNIT ONE:

  • Unit 1 Essay Assignment - OK's Centennial

  • "Oklahoma...a Great Place for Living

  • "Oklahoma: A Great Place to Play"

  • "Moving to Oklahoma"

  • Wikipedia article on "Oklahoma"

  • Answers.com entry on Oklahoma

  • "Six-Year Old Book Still Paints Accurate Picture of Sooner State Poverty"

  • "Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma"

  • "Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers

   

• Unit Two:

  • Unit 2 Essay Assignment - 3 Wishes

   

• Unit Three:

  • Unit 3 Essay Assignment - Reading (*.doc file)

  • Unit 3: "Literacy and the Politics of Education" by C. H. Knoblauch

  • Literacy in General

    • Literacy

    • National Center for Education Statistics

    • National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

    • National Institute for Literacy

    • Literacy Facts at a Glance

  • Critical Literacy

    • Critical Literacy and Resurrection

    • Critical Literacy

    • Critical Literacy (2)

    • Reading the Word/Reading the World

    • Developing Critical Literacy (from Oprah)

  • Functional Literacy

    • Functional Literacy

    • How Educated are We: Functional Literacy and Educational Attainment

    • Our Space: Functional Literacy

    • Adult Education - Funtional Literacy and Life Skills Program for State and Local Prisoners (from 1993-94 report)

  • Cultural  Literacy

    • Cultural Literacy

    • Introduction to the 1st edition of the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

  • Supplemental Essays by Ullman and Hartnett

   

• Unit FOUR:

  • Unit 4 Essay Assignment Handout

  • Writing an Argumentative Essay

  • Argument Essay Topics (suggestions)

  • Argument Packet

  • Persuasion Map