Composition at The Beach

A Place to Converge, A Place to Write

For students and faculty in the CSULB Composition Program

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Composition Issues

General discussion space for composition instructors

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English 100 (Comp 100)

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Jennifer Gianunzio

1st Blog Post

This week I held conferences with my students for their research papers. While I think (I hope) it's been helpful in their writing process, one benefit of this for sure was that it forced (not sure if that's the best word, but oh well...) my students to come to my office. Prior to this, none of my students came to my office and I knew at least some students had questions because I have been getting e-mails. These conferences have been very short, but it's been a good experience getting to talk t… Continue

Posted by Jennifer Gianunzio on October 22, 2008 at 10:45pm — 2 Comments

Mike Buckley

Closing Out Our Friend the Semester

So today I gave the students a brief talk about the logistics behind our in-class final: a WPE test. (I initially had mis-givings about doing the WPE, but eventually decided to because they will all have to take it, and they might as well have an introduction.) I stressed timed writing skills, reminded them about the pre-writing that is important for that sort of thing, and showed them a few templates. (I know--templates. But the WPE is what it is.)

Next week we are having conferences. Because… Continue

Posted by Mike Buckley on December 5, 2008 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

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Welcome to Composition at the Beach

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Created by Sarah Arroyo Oct 14, 2008 at 10:16pm. Last updated by Sarah Arroyo Jan 6.

Written Communication Benchmarks

General Education Written Communication Benchmarks

 

Students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate effective writing strategies through inventing, drafting, and revising ideas in essays (and other media) to meet the conventions of standard written English.
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Created by Sarah Arroyo Oct 30, 2008 at 3:24pm. Last updated by Sarah Arroyo Oct. 30, 2008.

 
 

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