Assignments and Writing

Here's a variety of prompts used in past First Year Composition classes with student "solutions" to the problem. When possible, we've also included a brief commentary from the professor discussing how the assignment was developed.

1. Analysis of and Response to a Non-argumentative Essay


2. A Critical Movie Review


3. Different Approaches to the Same Question: Writing the Critique of an Argument


4. Exploratory Analysis


5. Getting Acquainted: A Collaboration


6. Interpretative Essay on Place


7. Memoir (Narrative/Descriptive) of Food/Cultural Experience


8. Reflective Self-Evaluation


9. Research Project


10. The Classical Inventio