Intellectual Creativity in First-year Composition Classes Building a Case for the Multigenre Research Project.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language--Composition and exercises.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 144 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2016.

Summary:

Heidi Wall Burns has over fifteen years of experience teaching introductory courses in first-year composition, literature, and speech. She has an MA in English from Iowa State University? Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Justification of the MGRP in the Freshman Composition Classroom 1

2 The Self-Contained Unit for the MGRP 15

3 The Whole Semester Adaptation of the MGRP 39

4 Plug-In Activities 55

Introduction 55

Plug-In Activity 1 Analyzing Genre: Using Newspapers in the Classroom 57

Plug-In Activity 2 Audience Awareness Activity: Let's Raise That Tuition! 60

Plug-In Activity 3 Evaluating Websites for Source Material: Is It CRAAP or Crap? 63

Plug-In Activity 4 Teaching Students about Genre: Writing about the Weather 66

Plug-In Activity 5 Writing a "How-To": Teaching the Process Genre 68

Plug-In Activity 6 Infographic Making 71

Plug-In Activity 7 Library Scavenger Hunt 74

Plug-In Activity 8 Practicing Research Skills: APA Library Research 77

Plug-In Activity 9 Summarizing Using Stories 80

5 Assessment and Evaluation 83.

ISBN:

9781475824964

1475824963

OCLC:

951506599