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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword-Sarah Brown WesslingChapter 1: Justification of the MGRP in the Freshman Composition ClassroomChapter 2: Self-contained MGRPChapter 3: Whole semester adaptation of the MGRPChapter 4: Plug-in ActivitiesIntroductionPlug-in Activity 1: Analyzing Genre Using NewspapersPlug-in Activity 2: Audience Awareness Activity Plug-in Activity 3: Evaluating Websites using CRAAPPlug-in Activity 4: Teaching Students About Genre: Writing About the WeatherPlug-in Activity 5: How to Write a ProcessPlug-in Activity 6: Infographic-MakingPlug-in Activity 7: Library scavenger huntPlug-in Activity 8: Practicing Research Skills: APA Library ResearchPlug-in Activity 9: Summarizing Using StoriesChapter 5: Evaluation and AssessmentAppendicesAppendix A: Assignment Sheet for MGRP Self-Contained UnitAppendix B: MGRP Topic Proposal handout for self-contained unitAppendix C: Assignment sheet for whole-semester adaptationAppendix D: Assignment sheet for Assignment #1: Overview/Summary/Background Appendix E: Workshop for assignment #1 MGRP self-contained unitAppendix F: Checklist for Workshop dayAppendix G: Assignment sheet for Assignment #2: Annotated BibliographyAppendix H: Assignment sheet for Assignment. #3: Self ReflectionAppendix I: Final Workshop for MGRP self-contained unitAppendix J: List of former student topicsAppendix K: Formal Submission Expectations for MGRP self-contained unit Appendix L: MGRP Grading Rubric for Whole Semester AssignmentAppendix M: MGRP Grading Rubric for self-contained unitAppendix N: List of Potential GenresBibliographyAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgmentsIndex...
