Many of you posted your comments on the fact that students from all departments take English 1000 that makes teaching more difficult. It is necessary to find their interests to facilitate teaching process. Besides, students in one class have different level of writing skills. The assignments may turn out to be easy for some of them and difficult for others. Of course, individual consultations are important. Yet the course has to give a chance of improvement to everyone. Therefore the level has to be found during the first classes.
I am thinking now about what assignments to offer. I suggest that the very first ones should be aimed on learning about writing skills of each student. It should be, for example, an essay on a generic question. The results would let us get the general state of things and correct the further directions of teaching.
I liked the variety of examples that can be drawn from our readings and from your comments. It seems that it is better to try all possible types of assignments in order to find out the best ones.
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