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Writing in First-Year Seminars

Integrating Writing

Rhetorical Context

Make it Matter

Course Connections

Academic vs. Real-World Writing

Assigning Writing

Working from Goals

Writing Center Support

Instructor Resources

Assigning Research

Framing Assignments

Helping Students Focus

Library Research

Web Research

Documentation

Plagiarism

Peer Review

Specifying Tasks

Sequencing Tasks

Modeling Criteria

Modeling Commenting

Divergent Advice

Logistics

Time

Building in Incentives

Handout

Responding to Writing

Emphasizing Drafting

Becoming a Coach

Focusing Comments

Determining Grades

Writing Center Support

Sample Materials

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Making Rhetorical Context Work for You

Back to Rhetorical Context

Follow these links for advice, activities, and writing samples designed to help you and your students understand and effectively navigate rhetorical context.

• Introducing students to rhetorical context
• Identifying your rhetorical context as an assignment writer
• Establishing rhetorical context within assignments