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

Supplemental Evaluation for COCC300 - 1

  1. Please give us candid feedback about the effectiveness of specific strategies we used during the term. In other words, what worked for you and why or why not?
    --DAILY writing
    --peer-review workshops
    --collaborative writing project
    --portfolio grading
  2. What suggestions do you have to make the computer classroom more effective for you? For other students you've talked to?
  3. The one thing I wish I had known before I took this section of COCC300 is . . . Any additional comments?
At the beginning of my next COCC300 class, I will hand out a list of your comments and suggestions. What are the most important pieces of advice you would like to share with my next class as they begin the semester?