• Patterns and Purposes
• Library Research

With funds awarded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board , the Developmental Writing program is redesigning learning activities for Writing Skills II and English Composition I classes. Stacey Stover and Patti Dungan, along with Instructional Development Services staff, and Red Wassenich from Library Services made up the design team. The team worked from Spring 2007 through the summer, so the website to support students would go live in Fall 2007.

Three components were identified for design and development:

1. Patterns and Purposes website: basic writing curriculum and self-assessment exercises.
   http://irt.austincc.edu/ids/courseredesign/english/purposes/

2. Library Research Tutorial: information and interactive exercises to help learn how to document sources in MLA style. (under development)

3. Practice essays to serve as annotated models for student review prior to taking the English department essay. (under development)

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