Graduate MA Candidate in English Education and INGL 3202 instructor, Karrieann Soto Vega has been exploring the possibilities of incorporating rock music and videos as texts in the undergraduate classroom and in fostering literacy practices more generally. For her MAEE thesis research, she conducted a pilot study of rock and reading with INGL 3104 students [...]
One of the subjects our INGL 3103/3104 students most frequently request our help with (and point out as their personal Achilles’ heel) is the elusive matter of grammar. And, while the explicit focus of INGL 3103 and 3104 is not grammar, per se, we must necessarily address grammar in our students’ compositions. How, then, can [...]
If your students need support in either English or Spanish composition, we have two excellent resources to recommend to them. These are The Writing Center and the Centro de redacción. You can print out these documents and post them on your office and classroom walls, WebCT, your own course blog, Facebook, MySpace, or any other [...]
All faculty and teaching assistants should take their students for a library orientation workshop as a part of their activities for INGL 3103 and INGL 3104 at least once over the course of the semester. For many of our students, this course is their first introduction to formal research and the use of scholarly academic [...]
Planning a syllabus is no last minute endeavor and, particularly if you have never designed one before, it can be a somewhat overwhelming and anxiety-inducing task. To support your syllabus development, I am including a number of documents here that should get you well on your way to presenting a quality syllabus for your students [...]
You might want to have your students do any of the following as you endeavor to support their understanding of plagiarism and encourage their active avoidance of the practice:
1) Participate in Web tutorials such as The Internet Detective or The Indiana University tutorials. The latter actually includes a confirmation certificate your students can print out [...]
INGL 3103/3104 is the largest multi-section course offered by the English Department. With 18 faculty members and TAs, 41 sections, and 1,107 students, there is a significant need for a key person to support the on-going requirements of managing the course to insure its smooth functioning. Nevertheless, this position has not been filled [...]