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The EOF program provides additional support to students whose families have not traditionally attended college. Part of this support is an intensive writing course in the summer that prepares the students to enter their writing program classes in the fall.

Composition Skills is aimed at the weakest writers at the university. It focuses on reading comprehension and the basic skills of writing such as paragraph composition. At the same time, students do work that prepares them for other writing program classes.

Basic Composition at Rutgers prepares students to succeed in our first-year composition course, Expository Writing. This syllabus is for a summer section of the course.

Basic Composition at Rutgers prepares students to succeed in our first-year composition course, Expository Writing. This version of the course with a reading component meets three days each week rather than two; the extra day is focused on helping students develop the critical reading skills needed to work with complicated texts.

At the time, Exposition and Argument was an advanced version of our freshman-year composition course. Students worked with several shorter, complex essays at the start of the semester, but dealt as well with a full-length critical work towards the end of the semester. I chose Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain.

This is a prior version of our researched writing course. Students prepare a 10-12 page researched essay in the course. At the time, there were several topics for the course; this syllabus focuses on Native Americans, Puritans, and the problem of historical research and analysis.

For the most current configuration of my teaching of this course, see the course archive. This course is a basic introduction to writing for business and the professions, covering resumes and cover letters, sales letters, and researched business proposals.

Like the Business Writing course, this is an introduction to technical writing, geared towards science majors. These studenst also worked on resumes and cover letters, but also prepared a literature review and a researched propsal.

Advanced Technical Writing was the Rutgers Writing Program's first attempt to teach web authoring and document design. The class introduced students to FrontPage and FrameMaker. As it turns out, this was of course too much to cover in a single class and the course has since been split into Web Authoring and Information Design.

This is a PowerPoint presentation that I used at the start of the course to introduce students to the issues involved in document and Web design.

Introduction to Prose, one of two required core courses for English majors, provides students an introduction to novels and short stories. I tried in this section to complicate students' implicit understanding of the genres by choosing works that, in some way, presented problems. Seeing where these genres broke down helped students understand better how the genres work.

This is an introductory survey of American literature. Rather then using chronology to organize the syllabus, I wanted to disrupt metaleptic narratives of America by having the class explore common topics that continually emerge in the literatue.

This course focuses on the colonial period of American literature. I again used a thematic organization for the course, letting students explore recurring themes and issues in the literature.

Because I used a thematic organization in my American literature classes, I devised this assignment, which asked students to rearrange the syllabus by grouping readings under new rubrics. The goal was to have students see the ways in which the texts under each topic contained issues that connected to other topics in the class.