First-Year Writing Program

Word Document of Analog
PDF of Analog

First Week Checklist
Semester Checklist
Course Policy Checklist (updated Spring 2017)

See Rubrics section of Grading Page

• “Dear Fellow Writer” — from Sarah Hughes, Sept 2017
• “Guided Revision” — from Marni Presnall, Sept 2017
• “Wandering Writing” — from Marni Presnall, Sept 2017

• Basic Unit Plan
• Rhetorical Triangle Handout
• Teaching class like you organize an essay
• Conferencing Guidelines and Tips
• How to Use Readings in the Comp Classroom
• Fostering a Safe Classroom Environment for LGBTQ+ Students
• Creating Turnitin Assignments (created for online classes; may be helpful for regular classes)
• Setting up a library in Turnitin (created for online classes; may be helpful for regular classes)
• Assignment Sheet Template
• Active Learning Ideas — Descriptive Writing and Peer Review
• Handout on writing professional emails
• Tips for Group Work
• Handout “About Your Graded Papers”
• Teaching Grammar Ideas
• Practice Peer Review
• Peer Review for Surface Revisions
• Manifesto on Written Feedback (tips from students to teachers)
• Netiquette Handout
• Peer Review Follow-up Exercise
• Sentence Revision Exercise
• Template for Planning a Class in Modules
• Transition Exercise
• Ways to Increase Student Participation
• Working with Sentence Drafts
• Tips on Assignment Writing

Note that materials may not match the current semester’s standard syllabus.

Please see the standard syllabus section above.

• Peer Review for Summary Paper
• PeerReview for Argument Analysis or Critique
• PeerReview for Rhetorical Analysis

Note that materials may not match the current semester’s standard syllabus.

Please see the standard syllabus section above.

• EN 102 theme information/resources can be found on the themed 102 page.
• Template for Peer Review from Theodora Bishop, Spring 2015
• PeerReview_argumentativesynthesis_content
• PeerReview_researchedposition

Proposal template for EN 103 and EN 104

Examples of Past EN 103 and EN 104 Classes (with links to the proposals)

Spring 2010, EN 103

• Critical Thinking and Conspiracy Theory

Fall 2010, EN 103

• The Comic Book and Cartoon Panel: Analyzing the Political and Social Arguments of Visual Rhetoric

Spring 2011, EN 103

• Local Lore: Writing and Rhetoric in Tuscaloosa

Fall 2011, EN 103

• The Self in the Digital Age

Fall 2011, EN 104

• Fondness and Fanaticism: The Many Forms of Devotion
• Fidelity or (Re)Vision in Adaptation

Spring 2012, EN 103

• Exploring the Unfamiliar
• Criminal Trials: Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Fall 2012, EN 103

• Animals
• Finding Alabama’s Voice in the 21st Century

Fall, 2012 EN 104

• The Invention of Words

Spring 2013, EN 103

• Extreme Rhetoric
• Southerners on Screen

Fall 2013, EN 103

• American Spectacle

• Pedagogy Unbound (website/blog)
• Chronicle Vitae and Pedagogy Unbound
• Writing Rhetorics (blog)
• Remixing College English (blog)
• First Year Comp (blog)
• Writing Commons (online open textbook; doesn’t sub for a rhetoric but does have some useful videos and resources)
• The Scholarly Teacher (online journal about evidence-based teaching)
• 10 Fun Things to Write About (Ted-Ed Blog)