Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 47, Issue 4, 2020

In our analysis of seventy-five FYC writing assignment prompts, we identify common elements and offer pedagogical suggestions so faculty can use assignment sheets as rhetorical tools to introduce students to writing studies’ threshold concepts.

This essay shows how one English department used open educational resources and threshold theory to engage locally responsive writing instruction and increase access at a community college.

This instructional note describes the potential of an analytical essay assignment to encourage writerly self-reflection and meaningful revision in the two-year college writing classroom.