Ease on Down the Road
This film serves as the map, metaphor, and mood for the entire course.
What is The Wiz?
This assignment asks students to explore personal experience to uncover meaningful questions.
What is the Personal Inquiry?
Unit 1 focuses on voice, story, and this foundational element.
What is personal experience?
This platform is the main hub for assignments and grades.
What is Brightspace?
Copying AI-generated work and submitting it as your own is considered this.
What is plagiarism?
This idea frames writing not as a finished product, but as an ongoing journey.
What is writing as a process?
This assignment is also known as the literature review.
What is the Conversational Inquiry?
Unit 2 teaches students how to enter academic conversations and engage with sources as this.
What is a participant in a scholarly conversation?
Assignments must be submitted in these formats unless otherwise stated.
What are .doc, .docx, or PDF files?
The syllabus states that AI can be used ethically for support—but not for this.
What is doing the thinking for you?
The course emphasizes writing as inquiry, social practice, and this additional role.
What is a form of critical analysis?
This assignment focuses on breaking down an argument, text, or system with critical insight.
What is the Analysis Inquiry?
Unit 3 centers analysis of power, systems, and this concept from Stuart Hall.
What is representation?
This grading category emphasizes presence, participation, and community care.
What is Showing Up with Heart?
When students feel overwhelmed or confused, they are encouraged to do this instead of using shortcuts.
What is reach out to the instructor?
The course’s central belief is that the power to write clearly and confidently has been here all along—just like this character’s realization.
Who is Dorothy?
This final assignment represents the “There’s No Place Like Home” moment of the course.
What is the Final Presentation?
Unit 4 asks students to imagine futures and integrate learning into this broader framework.
What is purpose and application?
Late work without communication generally receives this consequence.
What is a zero?
Academic integrity is described as essential to maintaining this within the university community.
What is trust?
The four major assignments together represent this overarching goal of the course.
What is developing voice, inquiry, and critical thinking over time?
This assignment sequence is intentionally designed to do this rather than exist as isolated tasks.
What is building incrementally toward deeper inquiry and synthesis?
Across all four units, students are repeatedly asked to connect writing to this deeper practice.
What is self-discovery through inquiry?
The course’s civil discourse policy emphasizes listening to understand rather than doing this.
What is debating to win or replying without care?
At its core, this course prioritizes growth, voice, and this deeply personal journey.
What is your own intellectual development?