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Director Kate Ryan, PhD, shares syllabus, assignments, and samples of student writing for first-year writing courses at University of Montana

Course materials:

• Course Syllabus [PDF]
• Assignment Description [PDF]

Examples of students' writing

• Material Cycle [PDF]

  • Emily Denman's personal essay (poetry/prose) describes her early writing experiences, as well as her mother’s interest in books and the affect that this had on the author’s childhood.

• Night Dreams [PDF]

  • Cody Schliebe's personal essay details a dream journal he started and how it shaped his writing as a whole.

• Op-Ed: Eye Opener to Email [PDF]

  • Megan Brown's personal essay based on the idea of the best email that they had ever written.