Twenty Writing Assignments in Context ─ An Instructor's Resource for the Composition Classroom

This book compiles 20 writing assignments for the composition classroom, from first-year composition to upper-division writing-in-the-disciplines courses. Writing instructors from universities in the US provide assignments like writing and designing informational booklets for international exchange students, blogging, proposal writing in technical communications, place-based research, website building, and analysis of graffiti, financial contracts, a political cartoon or print ad, and Wikipedia. They also include the rationale behind the assignment and supplemental materials like grading rubrics, scaffolding assignments, and tips for avoiding pitfalls. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Melissa Bender is a lecturer in the University Writing Program and the assistant director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at the University of California, Davis. Her interests include professional writing, visual rhetoric, composition and international education. A former president of the Margaret Atwood Society, Karma Waltonen is a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, where she won the Academic Federation Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015.