College Writing Program
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 64
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The College Writing Program covers the full range of writing skills and strategies needed for success in college. During the course, students actually complete a college-level Process Essay from start to finish, moving step-by-step through the writing process, by utilizing the guidance provided. Course uses fun, interesting activities to keep students moving forward.
The book is:
- Thorough and substantive
- Research-based materials use the latest pedagogical theories
- Each section covers a different part of the writing process:
- Generating ideas, Intro / Body / Conclusion, the Thesis, Purpose and Audience, Language and Tone
- Interactive
- Chapter questions and activities involve students in exploring the writing process
- Post-chapter journal questions promote student reflection and learning
- Collaborative
- Peer Editing activities keep students engaged and involved
- Practical and useful
- Students create and complete a college-level Process Essay during the course
- Utilizes a Learn-by-Doing approach
This first edition of The College Writing Program features:
- Chapters on Writing Strategies, Annotating, Reading for Understanding, Essay Construction, Writing Conventions, Using Inclusive Language, and MORE
- Focus on Peer Editing activities
- Keeping a journal—to think about and reflect on each day’s activities
Adopting instructors will find extensive materials to help with conducting the course, evaluating student progress, and assessing overall effectiveness
SESSION ONE
1. Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!
2. Origins of this course
3. So LET’S GET GOING! Class Activity
4. Goals of this course
5. Writing Strategies—getting started
6. Expository Writing
7. Our writing project—Explain a Process
8. Keeping a Journal
9. Homework for next time
SESSION TWO
10. Welcome back! Journal is due
11. Our writing project—Explain a Process—class activity
12. Annotating and Note-taking
13. CHOOSE your process
14. Homework for next time
SESSION THREE
15. Welcome back! Journal is due
16. Reading for Understanding
17. Reading Opposing Views
18. Homework for next time
SESSION FOUR
19. Welcome back! Journal is due
20. Essay construction—Intro/Body/Conclusion
21. Types of Writing—Part One
22. Our writing project—Explain A process—more steps
23. Explain a Process—What’s Next
24. Homework for next time
SESSION FIVE
25. Welcome back! Journal is due
26. Explain a Process essay—more steps
27. The CORE of your essay—the THESIS
28. Types of Writing—Part Two
29. Why Writing Matters
30. Homework for next time
SESSION SIX
31. Welcome back! Journal due
32. Explain A Process essay—the CONCLUSION
33. Purpose and Audience
34. Language and Tone
35. SUMMARY: Purpose/Audience/Language/Tone
36. Homework for next time
SESSION SEVEN
37. Welcome back! We’re making progress now!
38. Explain a Process essay—Rough draft
39. Success in College
40. Homework in College
41. Writing CONVENTIONS in college
42. Homework for next time
SESSION EIGHT
43. Welcome back! Journal is due
44. Explain a Process essay—Peer Editing
45. Explain a Process essay—What’s Next
46. Homework for next time
SESSION NINE
47. Welcome back! Journal is due
48. Language to NOT use in college writing
49. Using INCLUSIVE language
50. Explain a Process essay—Final Copy due!
51. ADVICE for the future
52. Final Journal—we write it in class NOW
APPENDIX
53. Classroom expectations and standards
54. Sentence Construction Worksheet
55. Proper form for college essays—GUIDELINES
56. Steps in the Writing Process
57. Explain a Process essay—GUIDELINES
58. Keeping a journal in college—GUIDELINES
59. Creative Writing—Japanese Haiku
Jeffrey Carman is a long-time college English Composition instructor. He has taught comp at community colleges, trade / tech schools, and public and private universities. For the last 18 years he has taught composition at Calif. State Polytechnic University, an engineering school in Southern California which is part of the State University system. Cal Poly gets a lot of students who are strong in STEAM but weaker in English skills, and Mr. Carman knows exactly what it takes to get these students up to speed with the demands of college writing. This new Handbook has been developed based on his education, training, experience and observations about what it takes to succeed and thrive with college writing tasks.