Over the last several weeks, we’ve developed some documents in class that will help you as you complete assignments for the rest of the semester. If you’re concerned that your writing isn’t improving or you aren’t sure how to do better, one of my first recommendations would be to revisit these resources and make sure you understand them! Here’s a list:

• The Learning Rubric (most important of all!)
• Rubric-inspired questions to ask yourself before and after writing
• A color-coded version of the rubric for Position-Taking, with “decomposition” exercises that showed what bad position-taking looks like
• Some example essays from our “Final Four” tournament
• The position-taking rubric annotated with examples from Sernett
• The exercise from class on Paragraphs and Transitions

I will add any other documents of this sort created this semester to this list.