Introduction

Background on the Course

CO300 as a University Core Course

Short Description of the Course

Course Objectives

General Overview

Alternative Approaches and Assignments

(Possible) Differences between COCC150 and CO300

What CO300 Students Are Like

And You Thought...

Beginning with Critical Reading

Opportunities for Innovation

Portfolio Grading as an Option

Teaching in the computer classroom

Finally. . .

Classroom materials

Audience awareness and rhetorical contexts

Critical thinking and reading

Focusing and narrowing topics

Mid-course, group, and supplemental evaluations

More detailed explanation of Rogerian argument and Toulmin analysis

Policy statements and syllabi

Portfolio explanations, checklists, and postscripts

Presenting evidence and organizing arguments/counter-arguments

Research and documentation

Revision

Writing assignment sheets

Assignments for portfolio 1

Assignments for portfolio 2

Assignments for portfolio 3

Workshopping and workshop sheets

On workshopping generally

Workshop sheets for portfolio 1

Workshop sheets for portfolio 2

Workshop sheets for portfolio 3

Workshop sheets for general purposes

Sample materials grouped by instructor

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Authors & Contributors

Sample Postscript Prompts - 4

  1. Please consider your writing process during this portfolio. What was the easiest element in crafting this portfolio? Consider such things as coming up with the topic, researching your problems and solutions, shaping the essays, drafting the essays, revising, refocusing, etc. What was the hardest part?

  2. For each of the essays you submit, consider your focus, development, coherence, voice, your use of rhetorical appeals, your use of a particular strategy, and the relationship you built between your purpose and your audiences. What are the two (or three) strongest aspects of each essay? Why? (Please be explicit.)
    What is the weakest aspect of each essay? Why? What would you do to revise this weakness, given another week?