Models for sequences of writing assignments:
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Models for sequences of writing assignments: (N.B.: many of these sequence models overlap or are very similar. Several models may be used in crafting a sequence)
. This is a traditional organization followed by many college anthologies. The progression commonly runs: personal essay à informational essayà expository pieceà comparison and contrast à persuasive essay à analysis
. This sequence begins with fairly simple, unilateral goals to more complex social goals: express à inform à explain à analyze à debate à persuade
. Beginning with personal experience, this sequence asks writers to use increasingly more sophisticated sources: personal experience à single source à popular journalistic writing à using two sources à interviews, field data à synthesis of multiple sources à scholarly articles/books
. This sequence assumes that changing the nature of the stipulated audience will govern the complexity of the writing assignments: writing for self à writing for classmates à writing for college peers à writing for general public à writing for scholarly discipline
. According to this model, students are initially given very restricted assignments, then are gradually asked to assume more critical independence: theme, purpose, audience, sources stipulated à purpose, audience, sources stipulated à purpose, audience stipulated à purpose only stipulated (students choose sources, type of audience, and topic)
. This model looks very similar to models 1, 2 & 5; the tenet is that assignments should pose increasingly more difficult intellectual tasks: summary à comparison & contrast à synthesis à analysis à argument à persuasion
Some topic-based courses may lend themselves to themes which build on each other and are increasingly complex, e.g.: family units à local community à national identities à global online communities SAMPLE SEQUENCE USING MODELS 1, 2, 6 (special thanks to Wes Chapman)
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