Day 3: Warrants and Inferences
An excellent Twitter thread about a short sentence authored by Hemingway, and what we’re prone to assume, and why (click the date for the thread): “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Hemingway’s infamous six-word is…
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Day 3: Writing Center Tips from People Who Use Writing Centers
Columbia University’s Writing Center is located in 310 Philosophy Hall. When the year begins, you can use their online scheduler to make appointments with tutors trained to work with you on your writing one-on-one. I…
Day 3: Close Reading Practice
When you close read essays, particularly more complicated work, and especially when you plan to “borrow” structures from that work, you may want to review Carillo’s (2017) text on close reading. She reminds us to…
Day 3: Formulating Claims
There’s no single formula for writing a college essay, but the Critical Response Essay tends to be a little more formulaic. Separate from the Critical Response Essay, a general template for critical thinking might look…
Day 2: How to Write a Precis
A precis (pronounced pray-see) is a concise summary of the important points of an article. It’s the next stage of what we did previously, which was simply identify the author’s primary claim. The paragraph(s) you…
Day 2: The Critical Response Essay
You can find the guidelines to the Critical Response Progression on Canvas if you click on the “Assignments” module—all assignment guidelines are posted along with the dropboxes already. Here is a more elaborate review of…