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Teaching CO300 Writing Arguments

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

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

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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Plan 4 (Thomas)

Portfolio I (due shortly before midterm); 35% of semester grade; 8 to 10 pages in 2 to 3 papers, either analysis or exploratory and an annotated bibliography
Portfolio II (due 2-3 weeks before finals' week); 45% of semester grade; at least 10 pages in 2 papers, same topic area, different aims and audiences
Final project; 10% of semester grade; collaborative project, presentation given during the final exam period (Students find an argumentative essay in their disciplines, do rhetorical and Toulmin analyses.)

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