Resources for TAs Teaching 200

Teaching RWS 200 - Sample Syllabi, Assignments, Schedules & Teaching Materials

Textbooks for 200 with useful thematic sequences

• First Weeks Material

• Unit 1: Construct an account of an argument and identify elements of context embedded in it

   

• Unit 2: Follow avenues of investigation, Notice context, Research, and Evaluate how understanding context changes argument 

• Unit 3: Given the common concerns of two or more arguments, discuss how the claims of these arguments modify, complicate or qualify one another

• Unit 4 (Optional): Consider own student life as context, Position life in relation to text arguments, shape own analysis through this framework

• All Purpose Materials for Teaching
  Pre-reading exercises, group work, class discussion 
  strategies, rhetorical reading, charting, drafting, peer review, metadiscourse, teaching with visual texts, etc.

• RWS 100 FrankenReader
  Here is last semester's "FrankenReader," a set of excerpts from 14 popular argument/rhetoric textbooks. 

• General Resources for Teaching Writing

  Summaries of research; bibliographies, organizations, concepts, classroom activities, links, etc.

• Resources on Grammar,  Mechanics, 
  ESL, Citation, Research Tools, etc.

• Announcements and Discussion Board