Instructional Note: North Central Texas College’s First-Year Composition Textbook Project

Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2024

Instructional Note: North Central Texas College’s First-Year Composition Textbook Project

Rochelle Gregory ; Kristen Weinzapfel ; Jacob Arnold ; Alisha Dietz ; Jared Ince ; Amy Ott ; Jocelynn Peña Hawkins ; Jason Poe ; Lisa Smart ; Kayla West

Abstract

In the fall of 2018, the First-Year Composition program at North Central Texas College (NCTC) initiated what informally became known as the Textbook Project. Our goal was to provide our community college students with innovative, imaginative, and inspiring classroom experiences that paralleled the high-impact opportunities their peers were afforded at four-year universities. The Textbook Project encompassed five key features: an NCTC-specific textbook, a campus-wide common read, resources for faculty and students in our college’s LMS, a college-wide lecture series, and funding for faculty professional development. Five years later, the project’s emphasis on continuity through collaboration has revitalized the department through faculty engagement and increased student success.

Journal: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published: 2024-05-01
DOI: 10.58680/tetyc2024514330
Open Access: Closed
Topics: first-year composition two-year college writing across the curriculum online writing instruction

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