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Category: Lesson Plans
Celebrating Student Achievement
Skip Downing provides a series of lesson plans that help end the semester with a student celebration of writing, speaking, and eating. This article, originally published in the
Academic.Writing Teaching Exchange, is reproduced here in its entirety. The original article can be found at
http://wac.colostate.edu/aw/teaching/downing2000.htm.
Contributor: Skip Downing, Professor of English and Coordinator of Learning Communities, Baltimore City Community College
Email: skipdown@erols.com
Christopher Reisch shares two related assignments, a Math Autobiography and Course Reflection. The lesson plans, originally published in the Academic.Writing Teaching Exchange, can be viewed by following the URL above.
Contributor: Christopher Reisch , The State University of New York at Buffalo
Email: reisch@acsu.buffalo.edu
Phone: (716) 645-2394
Marlene M. Preston offers a final exam assignment where students celebrate the semester's learning. This assignment, and its related materials, originally appeared in the Academic.Writing Teaching Exchange. It can be viewed by following the URL above.
Contributor: Marlene M. Preston, Virginia Tech Department of Communication Studies
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