Heidi Wall Burns, Michael Macbride

Intellectual Creativity in First-Year Composition Classes

Building a Case for the Multigenre Research Project

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Produktbeschreibung

Today's first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today's college and university students. Burns and MacBride were determined to make their first year composition courses more relevant to their students and sought a way to revolutionize their syllabus to do so. Building on the work of Tom Romono, Nancy Mack, Camille Allen, Sirpa Grierson, Melinda Putz (and others), Burns and MacBride set out to determine if a multigenre research project could better teach their students research, writing, and critical thinking skills than a traditional research-based essay. The findings of their semester-long study indicated that not only does a MGRP teach these skills, but it far surpasses a traditional essay in teaching engagement, intellectual creativity, and transferable writing skills. Burns and MacBride demonstrate two different ways to integrate a multigenre research project into the college composition classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781475824964
• ISBN-10: 1475824963
• Artikelnr.: 45190892

Autorenporträt

Heidi Wall Burns is originally from Montana but now lives in Minnesota with her husband where they have raised three boys. The Burns family enjoys traveling together to new places, playing sports, and spending quiet nights reading. Their natural curiosity makes it easy for Heidi to find things to research and write about. She has taught writing classes for over twenty years and loves sharing her love of words with her students and her family.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword-Sarah Brown Wessling Chapter 1: Justification of the MGRP in the
Freshman Composition Classroom Chapter 2: Self-contained MGRP Chapter 3:
Whole semester adaptation of the MGRP Chapter 4: Plug-in Activities
Introduction Plug-in Activity 1: Analyzing Genre Using Newspapers Plug-in
Activity 2: Audience Awareness Activity Plug-in Activity 3: Evaluating
Websites using CRAAP Plug-in Activity 4: Teaching Students About Genre:
Writing About the Weather Plug-in Activity 5: How to Write a Process
Plug-in Activity 6: Infographic-Making Plug-in Activity 7: Library
scavenger hunt Plug-in Activity 8: Practicing Research Skills: APA Library
Research Plug-in Activity 9: Summarizing Using Stories Chapter 5:
Evaluation and Assessment Appendices Appendix A: Assignment Sheet for MGRP
Self-Contained Unit Appendix B: MGRP Topic Proposal handout for
self-contained unit Appendix C: Assignment sheet for whole-semester
adaptation Appendix D: Assignment sheet for Assignment #1:
Overview/Summary/Background Appendix E: Workshop for assignment #1 MGRP
self-contained unit Appendix F: Checklist for Workshop day Appendix G:
Assignment sheet for Assignment #2: Annotated Bibliography Appendix H:
Assignment sheet for Assignment. #3: Self Reflection Appendix I: Final
Workshop for MGRP self-contained unit Appendix J: List of former student
topics Appendix K: Formal Submission Expectations for MGRP self-contained
unit Appendix L: MGRP Grading Rubric for Whole Semester Assignment Appendix
M: MGRP Grading Rubric for self-contained unit Appendix N: List of
Potential Genres Bibliography About the Authors Acknowledgments Index