{"id":243,"date":"2011-12-06T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/?page_id=243"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:52:53","slug":"assignment-sequences-for-college-english-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/assignment-sequences-for-college-english-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment Sequences for College English II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An assignment sequence is a sequence of assignments designed to engage a student with a thinking-reading-writing process that leads to more interesting writing.\u00a0 Each assignment should be part of a chain that enables students to do predictable things in the the finished essay.\u00a0 For example, in the research essay, we want students to be able to take control of the research process with their own questions and integrate sources in a way that the student&#8217;s voice and purpose don&#8217;t get lost.\u00a0 What assignments can we give that more predictably lead to these important intellectual accomplishments?<\/p>\n<h5><a title=\"Essay 1:  Of Man and Beast\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/essay-1-of-man-and-beast\/\">Literature and the Natural World Sequence #1<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Essay 1: Landscape Revisited\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/essay-1-landscape-revisited\/\">Literature and the Natural World Sequence #2<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a title=\"Essay 1:  Of Man and Beast\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/essay-1-of-man-and-beast\/\">Literature and the Humanities Sequence for Short Paper #1<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Short Paper: Myth-Making and Type Characters\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/short-paper-myth-making-and-type-characters\/\">Literature and the Humanities Sequence for Short Paper #2<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Research Paper Assignment\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/research-paper-assignment\/\">Literature and the Humanities Sequence for Research Paper<\/a><br \/>\n<a><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Short Paper on Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/short-paper-on-justice\/\">Literature and Public Life Sequence for Short Paper<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Research Paper\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/research-paper\/\">Literature and Public Life Sequence for Research Paper<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assignment sequence is a sequence of assignments designed to engage a student with a thinking-reading-writing process that leads to more interesting writing.\u00a0 Each assignment should be part of a chain that enables students to do predictable things in the the finished essay.\u00a0 For example, in the research essay, we want students to be able &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/assignment-sequences-for-college-english-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment Sequences for College English II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}