Sample Assignment Prompts

View my sample assignment prompts in professional & technical writing, composition, and fundamentals of academic writing.

Public Campaign Team Project

Students in ENGL 420: Business Writing partner with local community partners to create a number of multimedia campaign deliverables to enhance their partner's funding and digital reach.

Students in ENGL 420: Business Writing research a relevant issue or need in their intended industry and develop a detailed data driven report with original data visualizations.

Students in ENGL 422: Writing for the Health & Human Sciences conduct a medical interview with a mock patient to compose accurate case notes and a referral letter.

Students in ENGL 422: Writing for the Health & Human Sciences choose a specific disease and patient population to develop an accessible and culturally sensitive patient educational material.

Informational Backgrounder

Patient Interview & Case Notes

Patient Educational Material

Medical Funding Grant Proposal

Scholarly Article Analysis

Students in ENGL 422: Writing for the Health & Human Sciences research a relevant research need and develop an IMRaD grant proposal in groups.

Students in ENGL 106: Composition choose a scholarly article within their intended field and compose an argument on the author's credibility.

Exploring a Research Question

Students in ENGL 1100: Fundamentals of Academic Writing explore a research question and submit an expository essay.

Professional Emails: Campus Belongingness

All first-year writing students compose two professional emails to their instructor to aid their acclimation to campus. Both emails ask students to reflect on belongingness and goal set to foster campus belongingness.

Technical Instruction Sets

Students in ENGL 421: technical writing compose an instruction set on a task they consider themselves experts in. They compose 2 instruction manuals (one for novices and one for experts.)

Students in ENGL 106: Composition/Summer Start investigate and map a relevant topic in their intended discipline.

Students in ENGL 106: Composition/Summer Start remix their research into a digital research poster and present at a public poster symposium.

The Research Poster & Pitch

Mapping the Problem Essay

Usability Test Plan & Report

Students in ENGL 421: technical writing test one of their previous instruction sets with members outside a course and generate a report on their findings.