COURSE MATERIALS
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
COURSES TAUGHT:
ENGLISH 1101: FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION I
This course is designed to introduce first-year writers to both academic writing and to the culture of the university, which helps orient the large contingent of Gen1 students at Georgia State. Course curriculum includes an introduction to rhetoric, critical thinking, information literacy, research methods, and academic citation; to support these topics the assignments consist of a literacy narrative, a modified ethnography, a film analysis, and a final research project.
ENGLISH 1101: SUCCESS ACADEMY–FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION I
Success Academy is a nationally-acclaimed retention initiative at Georgia State that provides additional scaffolding for less-accomplished freshman writers. Assignments and course goals were the same as the standard 1101 sections, but the smaller class size allowed for more one-on-one contact time with each student as well as more in-class drafting, workshopping, and revision.
ENGLISH 1102: FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION II
This course is the second in the First Year Writing program series, and it focuses on media literacy, organization, multimodal composition, and visual rhetoric as well as research and documentation. Assignments were designed to connect theory to practice, and students were asked to write a rhetorical analysis of a music video, create a multimodal composition, and to develop a research project that included a research proposal, an annotated bibliography, and a supported argument essay for a topic of their choice.
SPRING 2018 • FALL 2018 • SPRING 2019 • SPRING 2020
ENGLISH 1102: SUCCESS ACADEMY–FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION II
Success Academy is a nationally-acclaimed retention initiative at Georgia State that provides additional scaffolding for less-accomplished freshman writers. Assignments and course goals were the same as the standard 1102 sections, but the smaller class size allowed for more one-on-one contact time with each student as well as more in-class drafting, workshopping, and revision.
SPRING 2018 • FALL 2018 • SUMMER 2019
ENGLISH 3130: BUSINESS WRITING
This course is designed to help upper-level students across a wide variety of majors prepare for the kinds of writing challenges they will face in the business world. This course emphasizes audience awareness and media specificity. Projects in this course are tied to different genres of business writing, including job market materials, professional correspondence, social media presence, and memos and reports.