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Welcome to Composition at the Beach! CSULB’s composition program is committed to helping students develop the writing abilities needed to succeed in their academic careers, their future professions, their civic responsibilities, and their lives in general. This social networking site is rich with resources for composition instructors and students. Through the “Groups” tab, Composition at the Beach also serves as the portal for many courses: from First-Year Composition to Advanced Argumentation to our graduate course on Theories and Practices of Composition, the site presents the most up-to-date approaches to teaching writing today.

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Composition 100

List of approved texts for the 2012 - 2013 academic year.

Textbook Reviews for the 2013-2014 academic year. Final selection in progress.

Sample Syllabi

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  • Syllabus 3 (This sample is only the schedule. The particular instructor has a Ning course site and the syllabus policies and procedures are located online on bolgspot.)
  • Syllabus 4 (This sample incorporates multimedia, including the integration of Composition at the Beach)

Sample Assignments

Composition 100S

Composition 100S Standard Course Outline (currently under revision)

Composition 100S, formerly known as ENGL 1 and ENGL 1E, is now a stretch course and is a graded, credit bearing course. We will be overhauling this section with resources for ENGL 100S during summer 2013.

Sample Syllabi

Early Start Program

The CSU system enacted a policy known as "Early Start" requiring incoming students who score 147 or below on the English Placement Test to begin remediation during the summer. Click here for the most up-to-date information.

Forum

Approved Composition 100 and 100S Textbook List 2 Replies

Started by Sarah Roussin in Textbooks. Last reply by Melanie Buckowski Mar 10.

The Exploratory Essay as part of a Research Project

Started by Suzan Gridley in Assignments Dec 15, 2012.

Assignment Template

Started by Sarah Arroyo in Assignments Apr 11, 2012.

Resources

Check out some helpful resources in the "Resources" tab above.

 
 
 

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Fieldwork Agreement

Observation Hours

I realized I never turned this in, so here it…

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Posted by Cassandra Casas on May 15, 2013 at 5:05pm

Hare HS - #5

On my last day of observations, Hare HS had changed to a new quarter. So the classes that I observed had new students. As such, the day was spent mostly on a syllabus review, syllabus quiz, and an activity. So, it wasn't the most interesting of…

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Posted by Danny Doan on May 7, 2013 at 1:04pm

Read. Read. Read.

I love the fact that I chose to observe Mrs. Clancy's literature classes instead of her other classes only because I love to read and they constantly read in this class. I found it interesting that she found many ways to incorporate a lot of…

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Posted by Tanya Julissa Munoz on May 6, 2013 at 9:52pm

Lack of Writing.

I don't know if the teacher I am observing focuses on writing when I am not there or if she does not focus on it at all. I have been going every Thursday now for a couple of months and I have definitely seen more reading than writing. In fact, I…

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Posted by Tanya Julissa Munoz on May 6, 2013 at 9:35pm

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