Academic Service during 2006 | Professional Development Activities and Other Accomplishments during 2006
TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING 2006
FALL 2006
- Designed and taught ENG 100: College Rhetoric I Syllabus | Sample Unit
I designed taught two sections of English 100 at Alma College where we focused on basic writing skills, basic rhetorical concepts, and basic research techniques.
The first half of the semester, students wrote a "guided" research paper, walking through all parts of writing and research together, with special emphasis on dealing with students' concerns about their writing, especially grammatical and punctuational concerns. The second half of the semester, students designed multigenre research projects collaboratively as we learned about various genres, voice and tone, and audience.
SUMMER 2006
- Designed and taught an independent study for ENG 100: College Rhetoric I
Over a 7 week period in the summer, I worked with an international student who had been in my English 100 course in the fall of 2005 and had struggled considerably, subsequently failing English 101 in the winter 2006 semester. In order to further his ability to write and speak in English, we went through various writing assignments, working repeatedly on drafts to identify specific language problems and his understanding of standard English conventions.
WINTER 2006
- Redesigned and taught ENG 101: College Rhetoric II Syllabus | Sample Unit
The redesigning of this course involved taking what I had taught at CMU before and making it fit the Alma College curriculum and requirements. First, this meant condensing two semesters of writing into one, as CMU requires two and Alma one. Second, this meant shifting focus toward a more rhetorically based course of study and using a new textbook. Students wrote several papers ranging in scope from opinion papers to extended research.
- Designed and taught ENG 190: Creative Writing Syllabus | Drafts Handout
I designed and taught one section of creative writing. Students were graded by portfolios, one at midterm and one at finals, and attempted all four genres. All students were required to submit their writing for publication in the campus creative writing journal and participate in the subsequent reading upon publication (nine of my students were published!).
- Designed and taught ENG 133: Intro to Literary Analysis Syllabus | Sample Unit
I designed and taught on section of literary analysis, an introductory course of mostly students who need a humanities credit and very few who are English majors. Students wrote several papers, some as research of literary analyses and some as analysis of their own, as we focused on some of the basic literary theories like deconstruction, formalism, and feminist/gender theory.