Teaching Resources for ENWR 106

ENWR106 Introduction to Writing
First-Year Writing
Montclair State University

Full Course Description & Proposal for ENWR 106 here (scroll below 105 Course Description)

On this page you will find a diverse range of handouts, lesson plans, sample assignments, reference sheets and class exercises for use in the instruction of ENWR 106 provided by multiple instructors with experience in teaching ENWR 106. While many of the materials below are designed for this particular course in the program, they can be modified to suit the needs of your own course(s) and even considered for use with courses in other disciplines. Please note that the content below, though organized according to the target areas of the First-Year Writing curriculum, represents a variety of approaches to teaching writing at Montclair State University.

Teaching Resources for 100 & 105

EX = In-class Exercise; WS = Worksheet; AS = Assignment; AR = Article

Sample Syllabi (Updated for Spring 2012)
*Sample Syllabus: Approaching Literature (Moss, Logan & Giura) - DOC : PDF
Sample Syllabus: Literature: The Human Experience (Keohane & Hamilton) - DOC : PDF
Sample Syllabus: Literature: Reading to Write (Moss, Logan & Giura) - DOC : PDF
Sample Syllabus: Literature to Go (Moss, Logan & Giura) - DOC : PDF
*Sample Syllabus: Making Literature Matter (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF  
*Sample Syllabus: Making Literature Matter (Isaacs & Keohane) - DOC : PDF
Sample Syllabus: Making Arguments About Literature (Isaacs & Maloy) - DOC : PDF

*There are new editions of these texts whose updated table of contents can be found here for Approaching Literature and here for Making Literature Matter.

Sample Essay Assignments
AS - Close Reading - DOC : PDF
AS - Dubus, Faulkner & Li (Logan) - DOC : PDF
AS - Roethke "My Papa's Waltz" (Restaino) - DOC : PDF
AS - Sample Essay Topics (Lubrano) - DOC : PDF
AS - Essay 1: Dramatic Monologues (Bender) - DOC : PDF
AS - Essay 1 - Silko & Updike (Petrich) - DOC : PDF
AS - Essay 2 - Baldwin & Walker (Logan) - DOC : PDF
AS - Essay 2 - Hughes, Pastan & Whitman (Petrich) - DOC : PDF
AS - Essay 4: Cocktail Party (Lewis) - DOC : PDF
AS - Sample Documented Essay - Open Topic (Bernhardt) - DOC : PDF
AS - Sample Documented Essay - Blake "Chimney Sweepers" (Nash) - DOC : PDF
AS - Sample Documented Essay - Hwang "M Butterfly" (Logan) - DOC : PDF
AS - Sample Documented Essay - Ibsen "A Doll's House" (Keohane) - DOC : PDF
AS - Sample Documented Essay - Williams "Streetcar Named Desire" (Logan) - DOC : PDF

Portfolio
AS - Sample Portfolio (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF

Articles / Secondary Sources
AR - Hashmi - Jilting of Jig: "Hills like White Elephants" - PDF
AR - Peel - Semiotic Subversion in "Desiree's Baby" - PDF
AR - Renner - Moving to the Girls' Side of "Hills like White Elephants" - PDF
AR - Wyche - Metaphorical Abortion in "Hills like White Elephants" - PDF
AR - Zanger - Hawthorne: "The Birthmark" - PDF

Analysis & Reading Strategies
EX - Applying Concepts for Stronger Analysis (Keohane) - DOC : PDF
EX - Developing Beyond Plot Summary through Mulan (Maloy) - DOC : PDF
EX - Discussion Questions for Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" (Logan) - DOC : PDF
EX - Reading Gothic Elements in The Yellow Wallpaper (Gonzalez) - DOC : PDF
EX - Two Ways of Seeing (Hamilton) - DOC : PDF
WS - Sample Rhetorical Analysis of Kincaid's "Girl" (Logan) - DOC : PDF
WS - Writing Myths - DOC : PDF

Theoretical / Critical Approaches
WS - Lenses for Reading Literature (Maloy) - DOC : PDF
WS - Literary Criticism Approaches (Moss) - DOC : PDF

Prewriting
WS - Poetry Rewrite - Whitman (Evans) - DOC : PDF

Central Claim
WS - Central Claim Development (Reid) - DOC : PDF
WS - Central Claim & Draft Revision (Keohane) - DOC : PDF

Development
WS - Logical Fallacies - Silko (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF
WS - Paragraph Structure & Linking Support (Reid) - DOC : PDF
EX - Utilizing a Variety of Support (Reid) - DOC : PDF

Clarity of Prose
WS - Editing: Four Common Errors (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF
WS - Editing: Four More Common Errors (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF
EX - Effect of Tone: Understanding Audience & Reader (Hamilton) - DOC : PDF
WS - Fixing Error Patterns (Maloy) - DOC : PDF
WS - Sensory Details (Hamilton) - DOC : PDF
WS - Sentence Checker: Punctuation & Fragments (Hamilton) - DOC : PDF
AS - Style Journal Assignment (Butler) - DOC : PDF
WS - Teaching Clarity (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF

Documenting & Utilizing Outside Sources
EX - Documentation Strategies (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF
EX - Five Suggestions for Using Quotations (Maloy) - DOC : PDF
EX - How to Write a Summary (Gonzalez) - DOC : PDF
WS - MLA Citation Style for Anthologies - DOC : PDF
EX - Quoting Round Robin (Gonzalez) - DOC : PDF
EX - Summarizing & Quoting (Isaacs) - DOC : PDF
WS - Summarizing, Paraphrasing & Quoting (Maloy) - DOC : PDF
EX - Thinking with & Against Other Writers (Keohane) - DOC : PDF

Revision & Peer Review
EX - Criterion-Based Peer Review - DOC : PDF
EX - Documented Essay Peer Review (Bernhardt) - DOC : PDF
EX - Evaluative Peer Review - DOC : PDF
EX - Making Quotations Work (Bernhardt) - DOC : PDF
EX - Postwrite Self Review - DOC : PDF
WS - Teaching Revision - DOC : PDF