ENGL 0943: Writing Foundations Workshop Daily Writing Prompts
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#1 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What is your greatest strength as a writer?
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#2 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
Do you have writing anxiety? What does writing anxiety look like or feel like for you?
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#3 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What grammar rule or rules challenge you the most? If you don’t know the specific rule, explain what the error is.
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#4 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
For you, what is the most interesting or persuasive rhetorical appeal? Why?
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#5 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What element of SPAACE feels most challenging to write about? Why?
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#6 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What does it mean to plagiarize as a writer in college? What kinds of behaviors do you consider to be academically dishonest? Does plagiarism matter outside of academia? How should schools or other institutions punish cheaters or plagiarizers?
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#7 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What activity or reading or lecture was most useful for the Rhetorical Analysis? What activity or reading or lecture was not useful? What would help with future essays or the Causal Analysis Essay specifically? What do you want to learn more about or have an opportunity to work on? Any other information you want to share?
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#8 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What questions or concerns do you have about the Causal Analysis essay, causal thesis/precis assignment, and/or presentation assignment? If you don’t have questions or concerns, use this time (on paper) to brainstorm about or start asking research questions to develop your Causal Analysis problem/topic.
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#9 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What did you learn from our library instruction today? Is there anything you want to know more about? How do you plan to incorporate the library into your research/writing process?
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#10 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What criteria or process do you use for determining if a source is credible or not?
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#11 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
How do you read class material? Do you annotate? Do you challenge ideas and conclusions or ask questions? Do you re-read?
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#12 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What worked well for you in the first peer review and/or individual conference session? What was the most challenging aspect? How do you plan to use that information for future essays?
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#13 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What strategies do you use when developing an essay?
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#14 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What activity or reading or lecture was most useful for the Causal Analysis? What activity or reading or lecture was not useful? What would help with future essays or the Proposal Essay specifically? What do you want to learn more about or have an opportunity to work on? Any other information you want to share?
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#15 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
Do you like writing more about the causes of a problem or the solutions to a problem?
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#16 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
Have the thesis and precis assignments been helpful in your research, planning/pacing, or writing process? Why or why not?
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#17 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What did you learn from your class presentation? What was the most challenging aspect? How do you plan to use that information for future presentations?
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#18 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What step in the writing process causes you the most difficulty? What about this step makes it so challenging? How do you plan to address this step in the future? Did our discussions or readings provide any ideas or tools you would like to try?
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#19 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
What activity or reading or lecture was most useful for the Proposal? What activity or reading or lecture was not useful? What would help with the final essay? What do you want to learn more about or have an opportunity to work on? Any other information you want to share?
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#20 Writing Exercise: Writing Foundations Workshop
Final thoughts about the semester? What did you learn about your writing process? What progress are you most proud of? What elements still need work?
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