Module 4: College Writing

How do you approach writing for a college course?

LEH 250 is not ENG-111 or ENG-121, meaning that this course is not specifically about writing. Yet, like almost all college courses, it involves writing in various forms.  This section focuses on a general understanding of how writing in college can be very different than that you did in high school and strategies you can use to be successful.

1: Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students

What is Intellectual Work?
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/what-is-intellectual-work/

Understanding Bloom's taxonomy
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/understanding-blooms-taxonomy/

Understanding Writing Assignments as Intellectual Work
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/intellectual-work-in-writing-assignments/

Treating Complex Tasks as Intellectual Work: Why?
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/why-do-this/

And look over one of the sample analyses of an assignment (there are four).

 

 

Assignment: College Writing

Pick a writing assignment for this semester that is not from your composition course . Using the process outlined in Reading and Writing Successfully in College analyze the assignment.

Here are examples from the book of this kind of analysis for four types of assignments:

Summary and analysis
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/sample-assignment-1-summary-and-analysis/

Position paper
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/sample-assignment-2-position-paper/

Article for public audience
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/sample-assignment-3-article-for-a-public-audience/

Reflection
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/readwritesuccess/chapter/sample-assignment-4-reflection/

The same general guidance applies to all writing assignments, including research papers and lab reports.