A Guide to First-Year Writing at Grand Valley State University

Third Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-7924-7578-8
Verlag: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback

A Guide to First-Year Writing at Grand Valley State University is meant to be the perfect asset to the first-year writing courses offered by the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. These courses are designed to build on and expand your writing, critical thinking, collaboration, and information literacy skills.A Guide to First-Year Writing at Grand Valley State University: - invites students into the community and celebrates student writing at all stages.
- explains shared course expectations for WRT 150.
- contains past students' advice and A-level portfolios to guide revisions, class discussions, and overall course success.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction
- First-Year Writing Course Options
- Overview of First-Year Writing
- First-Year Writing Goals
- How and Why We Write
- Writing as a Process
- Information Literacy and Academic Conversations
- Documenting Sources
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Focusing on Revision: One Student's Process
- University and Writing Department Policies
- Required Passing Grade
- Learning or Physical Disabilities
- Attendance
- Plagiarism
- The First-Year Writing Portfolio
- Characteristics of A, B, C, and D Portfolios
- Grading in First-Year Writing
- Process and Portfolio Grading
- Portfolio Submission Guidelines
- Portfolio Submission Eligibility
- Semester-Long Evaluation
- Midterm Evaluation
- Grade Appeals
- Portfolio Grading FAQ: Questions You Might Have
- Resources for Student Writers at Grand Valley
- Library Resources
- Computer Classrooms
- The Fred Meijer Center for Writing
- Exemplary First-Year Writing Portfolios
- Portfolio One by Olive White
- Finding Common Ground Between Uncommon People
- Gagging Ag-Gag
- A Handlebar Mustache and a Crayfish Funeral
- Portfolio Two by Avery Wissmueller
- Retracing History (as told by Matthew Tijan)
- Dying to Be Green
- Agriculture: Made With Artificial Ingredients
- Portfolio Three by Natalie Feldpausch
- Goosebumps and Stickers
- The Solution to Smoothly Implementing Wind Turbines
- Campus Ministry: A Community Built on Love
- Exemplary Individual Essays
- A Gift from a Butterfly by Amberly Dzimira
- Pop by Madison Carmichael
- An Intoxicating Truth by Anna Patton
- Eugenics of the 21st Century by Dana Williams
- The Demand for Change by Cambria Tiemann
- Professional Wrestling Is Art by Caleb Wolfe
- Minimalism in Our Digital World by Kaya Dahlquist
- Avengers: The Return to the Big Screen by Sofia Martinez Martinez
- Living in Toxicity by Kayla Weaver