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Tips for Responding to Analytical Writing
1) Prepare students to attend to and benefit from your responses, and those of their peers by:
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Guide to Making and Using Writing Assignments
Creating assignments can be a way of structuring a First Year Seminar. Putting in the time to create assignments first can help “writing” and “content” work together so that “writing” does not appear to distract from “content” but, to the contrary, enhances the teaching of content, and vice-versa. Here is some advice for creating writing assignments that help students to learn “content” and think about and discuss it innovatively, precisely, and assertively.
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Getting Started
Answers to frequently asked questions by new students just getting started at Middlebury.
On First-Year Advising and Course Selection
The Basics, Including a Checklist for your First Advising Meetings. Learn this, or read it and have it in front of you, and you should be ready to start.
Advisees' Frequently Asked Questions (update expected by September 1st, 2020) Learn these, and their answers, as well, and you won't have to ask others quite so many questions while you are advising.