Open Educational Resources
Document Type
Assignment
Publication Date
Fall 11-20-2025
Abstract
This resource offers an assignment sequence for a 200-level writing class. As a variable topic course broadly titled “Writing for Special Fields,” I have flexibility in terms of course content. I ground this course in theories of community writing, where students will learn about how people have written about and for their communities. The resource supports students engagement with their communities, starting with an introduction to QC’s archives. specifically the “LIfe at Queens College” archive, as a way to tell a story about place. Students will then be invited to tell a story about a community to which they belong (which may or may not be relegated to QC). By the end of this sequence, students will have accomplished the following: practiced collaboration & shared knowledge-making with peers; engaged with their own communities through writing; identified audience & genre expectations in a variety of modalities & rhetorical situations; employed a variety of composition, revision, & peer review practices; and synthesized theories of community writing with lived experience.
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CUNY OER Funding
CUNY OER Initiative
