Basic Research & Writing

Basic Research and Writing

Course information sheet with course description, requirements, processes, goals and activities for this course

Examples of students' work

Different Ways of Writing about Issues: examples of research narrratives and issues overviews, as alternative ways to the standard academic essay for students to engage with content

Interpretations of the research-writing process	Note-taking on language learning histories	Note-taking on people and issues
Developing note-taking on people and issues	Note-taking on social, political, legal, and global issues	Mind-mapping on social, political, legal & global issues
Different ways of learning vocabulary	Explaining vocabulary	Collocation notes and networks
Language Learning Histories	Short essays on social, legal and political issues	Longer essays on social, legal and political issues
Students' stories of the development of their English during a course	Students' work from all courses

Research resources

Guided research environments

- easy-to-read background information to get started on researching issues, and further links for developing independent research. Developed for use with this 1st year writing course.

Overview of research resources for all courses

Learning activities and cycles

4 drafts of a composition for discussion	Recording reference details for research sources	MLA citation guidelines
Self-study plan and review	Writer-reader response form

Approaches to teaching this course

Summary of the Academic Writing classes discussion at the 2007 Teacher Retreat	Summary of the Introduction to Academic Essay Writing discussion at the 2006 Teacher Retreat	Summary of the Introduction to Academic Essay Writing discussion at the 2005 Teacher Retreat
Example plan for Introduction to Academic Essay Writing, 1st semester	Summaries of all the course-specific and cross-course discussions, at the 2005 Retreat, 2006 Retreat, and 2007 Retreat