Create a Series of Memes

Provided by Nicole Batchelor For this assignment, you should use an online meme generator such as quickmeme.com or memegenerator.net to create your own memes that visually convey the argument from one of your unit essays. You will need to employ images and phrases that speak directly to the subject matter and argument of your unit…

English 2 Overview

Overview: English 2 Curriculum English 2 has a flexible curriculum that is organized around themes of your choosing. In the writing program, we like to call these themes “pressing issues of public concern,” and you have the flexibility to choose the issue for your course. Despite the individualized and thus varying topics, all sections of…

Why Multimodal?

Here at Lehigh University, we recently incorporated a multimodal composition initiative into our first-year writing sequence. Why? For a couple of reasons: First, because we saw it as an effective way to help students develop their writing skills in the context of an evolving and engaging digital landscape. And second, because composing in multimodal genres…

Learning Objectives for Students

Learning Objectives for Students Improve your rhetorical capacities: You will learn to meet the needs of academic and public audiences and to understand the basic conventions of various genres by analyzing and adapting to varying rhetorical situations. Develop Information Literacy Skills: You will practice locating, evaluating, and ethically and persuasively using primary and secondary research…

English 2 Course Design

English 2 Course Design   Essential Elements of English 2: Students should have instruction on and practice in different types of arguments (some mix of causal argument, policy argument, definitional argument, position argument, exploratory argument). Students should learn about (and practice writing) persuasive arguments as responsive to complex rhetorical situations. They should spend time thinking…

Suggested Sequenced Structure

Suggested Sequenced Structure: This is how the sequence of assignments might look using the traditional 4-unit model; however, instructors may choose to restructure the course at their discretion.   Unit 1: short paper at instructor’s discretion 4-5 page paper: instructor may require a specific type of argument (e.g., definitional argument, evaluative argument) or may offer…

Technology Student Resources

Digital Technologies for Multimodal Projects English 2 is a first-year writing course, and the multimodal project is just one element within this larger framework. The purpose of the project is for students to think rhetorically about about how to make arguments in public spaces, and how to work within genres that are more flexible and…

Amanda Knox Podcast

After writing an analysis of the rhetorical devices used by the filmmakers of the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox, one student created a short podcast that argued for the persuasive power of fostering opposing viewpoints in the minds of viewers. Students can create podcasts like this one by using the free online audio editing software program,…

Compost Flyer

After writing a policy argument on the ways that universities could encourage students to help the environment (and arguing that taking individual, easy steps as part of a large group could make areal difference), this student created a series of colorful flyers encouraging students on campus to compost.  

I Am Fine Poster

After writing a policy argument on how to respond to depression among college-aged students on campus (an argument that included a section on how difficult it is to recognize the signs of depression), this student created a poster using a simple but elegant design in MS Word. Using only text, color, and font manipulation, she…