Unit 2

College Success: Complex causes and effects

As part of Unit 1, you identified your learning style, the impact they have had on you as a student and evaluated the strategies which you use.

In this unit, we will turn to the causes and effects of college success. In consultation with your teacher and classmates, you will choose one aspect of the issue and write an essay in which you explore the various causes and effects of the problem. This will require you to conduct research on the problem and to account for multiple perspectives (3 or more), for the different ways that writers frame and present the causes and effects of the problem.

Week 3—Research and Research Proposal
provide initial readings
Discussion—what do you think are the causes and effects of college success
Students research using databases and internet
Video—Research and Internet
Video—How to research using online databases
Students write research proposal
Weekly Report

Week 4—Research/documentation and Critical Thinking
student write biblio
student write annotated biblio article--summary/evaluation/application
video instructions for annotated biblio
Cause and effect lecture (video?)
Synthesizing Ideas (video?)
Drafting outline (video?)
Draft outline of essay
Weekly report

Week 5--Collaboration/Reading/Discussion
rough draft
peer reviews
Revisions—Concentrate on ___________________
Revisions Video
Portfolio selections
Final draft
Weekly report