EWRT 1A Class Resources
- EWRT 1A Winter 2020 Syllabus
- EWRT 1A Paper Guidelines 2020
- Essay #3 In Class
- Revision Option and Turnitin.com Winter 2020
- Peer Review Outline Questions
- Peer Review Essay Questions
- Peer Review Student Essay
- EWRT 1A Winter 2014 Essay Rubric
- MLA Essay Format
- Final Exam Preview 2020
- Final Exam 2020
Inspirational Articles and Videos on Writing, Reading, and College
- "The Transaction" by William Zinsser
- 10 Things Every College Professor Hates
- How and Why We Read by John Greene
- An Open Letter to Students Returning to School by John Greene
- Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers by Maria Popova
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic - Entertaining overview of the importance of grammar
Sample Essays
Supplemental Readings
- "America, Say My Name" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- "Behind the Name" Website with many articles about names
- "The Power Behind Your Name" TedX Talk
- My Name by Sandra Cisneros, from The House on Mango Street
- Saturday Night Live Name
- Key and Peele Substitute Teacher
Rhetorical Strategies Powerpoints
- Introduction Week 1 Powerpoint
- Description Essay Powerpoint
- Sensory Detail Words
- Sample Descriptive Essay
- Example Essay Powerpoint
- "How Language Shapes the Way We Think" TedX Talk with Lera Boroditsky
- "38 Wonderful Words with No English Equivalent" by Bill Demain
- Compare and Contrast Essay Powerpoint
- Process Essay Powerpoint
- Argument Essay Powerpoint
- Logical Fallacies Video
- Narrative Essay PowerPoint
- Example Narrative Essay #1
Frederick Douglass Narrative of an American Slave
- Frederick Douglass Narrative of a Slave Discussion Questions 2020
- MLA Citation for a book
- Captioned Frederick Douglass Biography
- Frederick Douglass Biography
- Harvard University Press Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Revisited
- American Passages Video on Slavery and Freedom
- Internalized Racial Oppression Article
- Hero's Journey Steps
- Hero's Journey Video
- Writing in the Spaces Left: Literacy as a Process of Becoming in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Lisa Sisco
- The Politics of Language in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of an American Slave by Lisa Yun Lee
- Critical Essay on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself by Doreen Piano
- Thomas Jefferson vs. Frederick Douglass Epic Rap Battle
- Frederick Douglass Drunk History
- 12 Years a Slave
Grammar
- Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic - Entertaining overview of the importance of grammar
- Overview of Grammar
- Sentence Fragments
- Run On Sentences
- Parallelism
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Bad vs. Badly
- Good vs. Well
- Subject/Verb Agreement
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Dangling Modifiers