This Composition Course contains twelve modules and twelve sub-modules—roughly one module per week for a fifteen-week semester, plus extra time to slow down or stretch out specific modules. The Writing Workshop modules expound upon and provide additional practice for the information presented in the original module, so it’s recommended that those pieces remain together. Many assign the Writing Workshops to students alongside the core modules as part of their weekly expectations, while some use the writing workshops as supplemental or optional material.
The modules can easily be re-arranged or deleted.
Sequence 1 shows how the course is currently organized, with the “Grammar Basics” module placed at the end of the content, more as an appendix and/or supplemental resource. Some instructors ignore this module entirely, while others like to pull pieces of it into other modules of the course.
Sequence 2 moves both of the Grammar modules to the front of the course, and also splits up the two modules about the Writing Process so that the process in introduced, then the revising and proofreading stage is moved to the end of the course.
Sequence 3 switches the modules on Writing in College and Writing Essentials and keeps the final Writing Process module about proofreading towards the end of the course, before grammar at the very end.
| Sequence 1 | Sequence 2 | Sequence 3 |
| Module 1: Success Skills/Writing Workshop | Module 1: Success Skills/Writing Workshop | Module 1: Success Skills/Writing Workshop |
| Module 2: Reading Strategies/Writing Workshop | Module 2: Reading Strategies/Writing Workshop | Module 2: Reading Strategies/Writing Workshop |
| Module 3: Writing Essentials/Writing Workshop | Module 12: Grammar Basics/Writing Workshop | Module 4: Writing in College/Writing Workshop |
| Module 4: Writing in College/Writing Workshop | Module 5: Grammar Essentials/Writing Workshop | Module 3: Writing Essentials/Writing Workshop |
| Module 5: Grammar Essentials/Writing Workshop | Module 3: Writing Essentials/Writing Workshop | Module 6: The Writing Process/Writing Workshop |
| Module 6: The Writing Process/Writing Workshop | Module 4: Writing in College/Writing Workshop | Module 8: Analysis and Synthesis/Writing Workshop |
| Module 7: The Writing Process—Revising and Proofreading/Writing Workshop | Module 8: Analysis and Synthesis/Writing Workshop | Module 9: Academic Argument/Writing Workshop |
| Module 8: Analysis and Synthesis/Writing Workshop | Module 9: Academic Argument/Writing Workshop | Module 10: Research—Finding and Evaluating Sources/Writing Workshop |
| Module 9: Academic Argument/Writing Workshop | Module 6: The Writing Process/Writing Workshop | Module 11: Research—Using Sources/Writing Workshop |
| Module 10: Research—Finding and Evaluating Sources/Writing Workshop | Module 10: Research—Finding and Evaluating Sources/Writing Workshop | Module 7: The Writing Process—Revising and Proofreading/Writing Workshop |
| Module 11: Research—Using Sources/Writing Workshop | Module 11: Research—Using Sources/Writing Workshop | Module 5: Grammar Essentials/Writing Workshop |
| Module 12: Grammar Basics/Writing Workshop | Module 7: The Writing Process—Revising and Proofreading/Writing Workshop | Module 12: Grammar Basics/Writing Workshop |
Some of the larger modules covering more material that could easily span multiple weeks are:
- Module 2: Reading Strategies
- Module 5: Grammar Essentials
- Module 6: The Writing Process
- Module 9: Academic Argument
- Module 10: Research—Finding and Evaluating Sources
- Module 11: Research—Using Sources
Smaller modules that could be combined with other modules include:
- Module 1: Success Skills
- Module 3: Writing Essentials
- Module 8: Analysis and Synthesis
