Teaching First-Year Composition with a large emphasis on student workshopping collaborative learning and writing. Teaching in a networked Macintosh classroom.
Students write three argumentative essays ranging from personal experience to an academic article.
Students re-work the essays over the course of the semester and turn in their polished portfolios at the semester's end. Students are required to give an oral presentation of their academic article. Focused on collaborative learning while students learned the Aristotelian modes of writing. Students wrote seven papers in the course of one semester in varying modes of writing from descriptive to argumentative. Final essay was a reader- response essay based on the literature readings of the semester.