Introduction to Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
PART I: YOUR COURSE
Planning the Course
Your Writing Course and Your Approach
Organizing the Course Design
Feedback and Assessment
Figuring Out a Realistic Time Frame
The First Day and Beyond
Constructing a Syllabus
Designing Effective Assignments
Aligning Course Learning Outcomes with Assignment Objectives
How to Create Effective Writing Prompts
Making Assignments Plagiarism-Resistant
Creating Steps or Sequencing Your Assignments and Providing Scaffolding
Sample Assignments
Assignment 1: Letter
Assignment 2: Argumentative Essay
Assignment Template
Sample Syllabi
Syllabus 1: The St. Martin’s Handbook
Syllabus 2: The Everyday Writer
Syllabus 3: EasyWriter
Responding to Student Writing
Know Your Purposes in Responding
Know Your Role as a Responder
Understand the Student’s Perspective
The Realities of the Paper Load
Utilize Other Types of Feedback
Using a Handbook
Orienting Students to a Handbook
Teaching Students to Use a Handbook as a Writing Guide
Encouraging Students to Use the Handbook beyond First-Year Composition
PART II: YOUR TEACHING
The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
Overview
Rhetorical Situations
Overview
Choices about Topics
Rhetorical Stance
Resources
Thesis
Overview
Brainstorming
Freewriting and Looping
Clustering
Resources
Paragraphs
Overview
Determining Paragraph Length
Repetition for Coherent Paragraphs
Repetition and Parallel Structure
Transitional Devices
Resources
Argument
Critical Reading: Overview
Analyzing Arguments: Overview
Constructing Arguments: Overview
Fairness toward Counterarguments
Examples, Precedents, and Narratives
Authority and Testimony
Causes and Effects
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Resources
Research
Preparing for a Research Project: Overview
Conducting Research: Overview
Observation
Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes: Overview
Electronic Note-Taking
Quotations
Paraphrases
Integrating Sources into Your Writing: Overview
Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism: Overview
Writing a Research Project: Overview
Outlining
Resources
Peer Review and Revision
Reviewing and Revising: Overview
Purpose
Paragraph Structure
Documentation
For MLA Citation
Revising Words
Revising Tone
Editing and Reflecting: Overview
Resources
Multimodality
Thinking about Visuals and Media: Overview
Design for Writing: Overview
Online Texts: Overview
Oral and Multimedia Presentations: Overview
Resources
Writing in the Disciplines
Writing in Any Discipline: Overview
Writing for the Humanities: Overview
Writing for the Social Sciences: Overview
Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences: Overview
Writing for Business: Overview
Resources
Writing for the Public
Overview
Helping Multilingual Writers
Writing in U.S. Academic Contexts: Overview
Clauses and Sentences
Nouns and Noun Phrases: Overview
Verbs and Verb Phrases: Overview
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases: Overview