Open Educational Resources
Document Type
Assignment
Publication Date
Fall 11-24-2025
Abstract
This research essay assignment for English 110 (First-Year Composition) provides students with flexible topic options and multimodal format choices while teaching essential academic research skills including source integration, audience awareness, and rhetorical decision-making. Designed with Universal Design for Learning principles, the assignment includes extensive scaffolding and support materials to help multilingual and multicultural first-year students successfully navigate the research writing process.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
CUNY OER Funding
CUNY OER Initiative
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons
Comments
Funding for this OER project was provided by the CUNY OER initiative, coordinated by the Teaching and Learning Center. This assignment is for an English 110 (First Year Composition Course) taught at CCNY.