First-Year Writing Program - for Faculty

General Guidelines for Writing Assignments

ENWR100 Introduction to Writing
Five Essay Questions for Rereading America (O'Gorman)
Identity Exploration (Isaacs)
Five Units and Essay Questions: For a text no longer in use, The Composition of Ourselves; but units on gender, language, social construction, interpretation and perspective.  (Isaacs)
Sample Portfolio Assignment (Isaacs)
 
ENWR105 College Writing I
Reality TV Essay (Restaino)
Essay 1 Consumer Culture Critical Essay (Woods)
Essay 1 Mini-Essay on Music (Behlman)
Advertising Analysis Essay (Restaino)
Advertising Critical Analysis (Woods)
Gender and American Culture--Essay Three (Woods)
Open Topic Documented Essay (Isaacs)
Documented Essay: Elvis and the American Dream (Durso and Phillips)
Politics of Location: A Self Study.  Final Essay (Lewis)
Five Essays on Popular Culture in a Global Context, using Hirschberg and Hirschberg Text (O'Gorman)
Five Essays on Understanding Our Histories, Understanding Ourselves, using McCormick's text by the same name (Durso and Phillips)
Five Essay Assignments for Use with NextText (Christa Verem)
Five Essay Assignments for Use with Inquiry to Academic Writing (Bonnie Dowd)

Sample Portfolio Assignment (Isaacs) 
Sample Portfolio Assignment (Obadike)

ENWR106: College Writing II
Essay 1: Dramatic Monologue Analysis (Bender)
Blake Essay Assignment with documentation (Jim Nash)
Sample Open Topic Documented Essay Assignment with peer review sheet and hand-out on using quotes (Kim Bernhardt)
Ibsen's A Doll's House Documented Essay Assignment (Keohane)
Cocktail Party Final Paper (Lewis)
Excerpts from two institutions and two students' public responses to the question, Why study literature? For use with a unit exploring the purpose of a literature requirement. Students might also be asked to read the Montclair State "Proposal for College Writing II" document which makes various arguments for the value and need for literature. (Dowd).

Sample Portfolio Assignment (Isaacs)