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Individual Assignments

• Assignment: Interest Inventory
• Assignment: Analyzing an Argument
• Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis
• Assignment: Infographic
• Assignment: Policy Proposal
• Assignment: Working with Literature

Multi-Part Research Paper Assignment

• Assignment: Topic Proposal
• Assignment: Locating and Evaluating Sources
• Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
• Assignment: First Draft
• Assignment: Peer Revision
• Assignment: Research Paper Final Draft

Discussions

• Discussion: Discourse Communities
• Discussion: Academic Argument
• Discussion: Critical Reading
• Discussion: Developing a Research Project: Audience
• Discussion: Locating and Evaluating Sources: Two Truths and a Lie
• Discussion: Integrating Sources
• Discussion: Drafting a Research Paper
• Discussion: Revising a Research Paper
• Discussion: Letters to the Editor
• Discussion: Working with Literature