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    • Civic Engagement Option
    • Eng 24 Best Research Essay Contest
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The Core Composition Sequence at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
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The Core Composition Sequence at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
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  • Eng 12 | Composition 1
    • Composition I Curriculum Guide
    • Accelerated Learning Program (ALP)
      • ALP: Online Teaching Resources
    • Portfolio Assessment
      • Digital Portfolio Resources for English 12
  • Eng 24 | Composition 2
    • Civic Engagement Option
    • Eng 24 Best Research Essay Contest
  • CRC | Composition Review Committee
    • 2023-24 CRC
    • 2022-2023 CRC Resources
    • 2021 Summer Readings
    • 2019-2020 CRC Readings
  • Online Writing Instruction
    • Resources for KCC teachers
    • Secondary Research on Digital Learning

English 12/12A0 | FYC 1

English 12 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing emphasizing the development and communication of ideas in written form and a basic rhetorical understanding of how language communicates ...

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English 24 | FYC 2

English 24, our Composition II course, is a required three-credit course that meets four hours per week. It is an interdisciplinary reading, writing, and research course focusing on the various ways knowledge ...

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CRC | Composition Review Committee

Each year, the CRC provides a venue for fruitful, thought-provoking conversations and collaborations among faculty who teach in the composition program, which is nearly all members of the English department ...

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New title from the WAC Clearinghouse offers ideas for using AI in the writing classroom. https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/textgened/

New edited collection on teaching with AI

This is a really interesting podcast about learning from mistakes with a lot of helpful insights for teaching Comp I and II, particularly for those trying to understand why some students fail to submit work or simply stop attending: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/learning-from-your-mistakes/ %

Podcast relevant to teaching Comp I and II

New resource on writing and AI

There’s been a lot of buzz about ChatGPT. Here’s a link to some resources so we can start to educate ourselves about AI text generators and what they might mean for teaching comp! https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/ai-text-generators-and-teaching-writing-starting-points-for-inquiry/

What do we need to know about ChatGPT?

Kingsborough Professors Emily Schnee and Gregory Bruno will share insights from their recent articles, both of which consider how circumstances beyond the writing classroom impact students’ experiences. Gregory’s work, which appeared in JBW, explores how faculty understand and navigate college policies that affect their students’ lives. Emily’s forthcoming article draws […]

PD for KCC Faculty: Emily Schnee and Gregory Bruno Discuss …

Wednesday, March 23rd, 3pm – 4:15pm| Race in the Writing Classroom Professor Sophie Bell, of St. John’s University, will share ideas about using race as a topic in writing classrooms, drawing upon her book, Mapping Racial Literacies, College Students Write About Race and Segregation. Participants will engage in a classroom […]

Professional Development Opportunity for KCC Faculty

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This looks great! Tisha and Paule will be doing a related presentation (along with Cheryl Smith) on Friday, November 5th at 1 pm. The focus of this later workshop will be on selecting reading in Composition courses. Come to one or both!

Equity and English Composition

Please join us on Friday, November 5th, at 1 pm, for a discussion led Professors Cheryl Smith and Tisha Ulmer (with former student Paule Lafortune) on the question of what texts to assign in composition classes. Check the Comp Faculty Lounge Blackboard site and your KCC email for Zoom meeting […]

What to Read in Composition? KCC Faculty and Students Weigh …

This looks great! Please register in advance to attend. Open to NCTE members. https://ncte.org/college/college-section-webinar-series/  

Rachel Ihara featured in NCTE webinar on reading practices!

Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole  

What do current critical reading practices look like?

      If you’re looking to refresh your teaching for this spring, consider registering for the Teaching & Learning Center’s Mid-Winter Institute. There are some VERY cool sessions being offered. Hope to see you there! 2021 Mid-Winter Institute Schedule  

Tune up your online course for spring 2021

        The CCCC Special Committee on Composing a Statement on Anti-Black Racism and Black Linguistic Justice has just released its powerful statement on the C’s site. Take a look. It is no coincidence the that CRC has been immersed in the project of learning about “equity” in […]

New CCCC statement | A DEMAND for Black Liguistic Justice

        TYCA — chaired by our own Cheryl Smith! — has just announced an awesome series of webinars entitled Teaching in a Time of Change. The sessions look awesome, and at least two of them overlap directly with CRC work last year and this coming year. I […]

TYCA’s upcoming webinar series!

Great new post on this cool blog analyzing the current disruption to higher education.

New post on teacher/scholar/activist

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2020 Teaching Horse

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Follow this link to join the listserv for the Two-Year College Association (TYCA), a branch of the larger National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

If you’re not already on the TYCA listserv, please consider …

Food for thought as we rethink our curricula for Comp I and II

An analog for rethinking the “academic essay”?

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Pasadena Community College tries a variety of small changes to increase equity in their classes.

Interesting ways of addressing equity

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  “This is the Future and Reading is Different Than You Remember” Original Stanford study

Lateral reading for evaluating credibility

Please follow this link to a video recording of Asao Inoue’s address to the CCCC March 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA. As many of you know, this address triggered an impassioned response within the field of Comp/Rhet, on the WPA-L listserv, and even made it into Inside Higher Education. In Fall […]

CCCC 2019 Chair’s address

Contact: rachel.ihara@kbcc.cuny.edu or gregory.bruno@kbcc.cuny.edu
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