Intellectual Creativity in First-Year Composition Classes (eBook)

Building a Case for the Multigenre Research Project

Heidi Wall Burns, Michael MacBride (Autoren)

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2016
156 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2497-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Today's first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today's college and university students. Burns and MacBride were determined to make their first year composition courses more relevant to their students and sought a way to revolutionize their syllabus to do so. Building on the work of Tom Romono, Nancy Mack, Camille Allen, Sirpa Grierson, Melinda Putz (and others), Burns and MacBride set out to determine if a multigenre research project could better teach their students research, writing, and critical thinking skills than a traditional research-based essay. The findings of their semester-long study indicated that not only does a MGRP teach these skills, but it far surpasses a traditional essay in teaching engagement, intellectual creativity, and transferable writing skills. Burns and MacBride demonstrate two different ways to integrate a multigenre research project into the college composition classroom.

Autor

Heidi Wall Burns has over 15 years of experience teaching introductory courses in first year composition, literature, and speech. She has an M.A. in English from Iowa State University. Michael MacBride received his Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 2014, his M.A. in Literature from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and his B.S. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. He teaches English, Literature, and Humanities courses.

Inhalt

Sarah Brown WesslingChapter 1: Justification of the MGRP in the Freshman Composition ClassroomChapter 2: Self-contained MGRPChapter 3: Whole semester adaptation of the MGRPChapter 4: Plug-in ActivitiesIntroductionPlug-in Activity 1: Analyzing Genre Using NewspapersPlug-in Activity 2: Audience Awareness Activity Plug-in Activity 3: Evaluating Websites using CRAAPPlug-in Activity 4: Teaching Students About Genre: Writing About the WeatherPlug-in Activity 5: How to Write a ProcessPlug-in Activity 6: Infographic-MakingPlug-in Activity 7: Library scavenger huntPlug-in Activity 8: Practicing Research Skills: APA Library ResearchPlug-in Activity 9: Summarizing Using StoriesChapter 5: Evaluation and AssessmentAppendicesAppendix A: Assignment Sheet for MGRP Self-Contained UnitAppendix B: MGRP Topic Proposal handout for self-contained unitAppendix C: Assignment sheet for whole-semester adaptationAppendix D: Assignment sheet for Assignment #1: Overview/Summary/Background Appendix E: Workshop for assignment #1 MGRP self-contained unitAppendix F: Checklist for Workshop dayAppendix G: Assignment sheet for Assignment #2: Annotated BibliographyAppendix H: Assignment sheet for Assignment. #3: Self ReflectionAppendix I: Final Workshop for MGRP self-contained unitAppendix J: List of former student topicsAppendix K: Formal Submission Expectations for MGRP self-contained unit Appendix L: MGRP Grading Rubric for Whole Semester AssignmentAppendix M: MGRP Grading Rubric for self-contained unitAppendix N: List of Potential GenresBibliographyAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 15 Illustrations including: - 4 Black & White Illustrations; - 6 Tables; - 5 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2497-1 / 1475824971
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2497-1 / 9781475824971