These pages contain lesson plans written for a Morehead State University graduate course Theories of Teaching Writing (ENG 509). The course was offered online in Spring 2004. The course focuses on teaching college writing, but teachers at all levels took the course. The first link is to the assignment.

1. One of the objectives of the course was to learn about assessment. The assignment scoring guide used both anchor descriptors and an analytic table. (contact Dr. Robert Royar )
2. I provided an example for the Spring 2005 class from a sample I had written to help undergraduates in a similar class write such a plan many years earlier. (contact Dr. Robert Royar )
3. Sabrina Back's "Writing for Specific Audiences and Specific Purposes" follows her school's Curriculum Alignment Document and the Kentucky Holistic Scoring Guide for seventh grade. Her plan supports KY Core Content Goals 1.4 and 1.11. Ms. Back is the Language Arts Chair at McNabb Middle School in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. (contact Ms. Sabrina Back )
4. Sydney England's "Grammar and Mechanics Review" focuses on basic writing at the college level. Sydney is the Pikeville College tutoring lab coordinator and instructor of developmental English. (contact Ms. Sydney England )
5. Mr. Murphy is a Graduate Assistant in English at Morehead State. His undergraduate work was at the University of Kentucky in Linguistics. His plan focuses on an assignment for Morehead's required first-semester writing class. (contact Mr. Scott Murphy )
6. Kathie Stamper works in the KCTCS system where she has extensive experience in adult education. Kathie's lesson focuses on teaching narrative writing in a workshop setting, including peer review. (contact Ms. Kathie Stamper )
7. Seth Thatcher is a Graduate Assistant for the English program at Morehead State University. His paper "Identifying Logical Fallacies Refutation Paper" is intended for first-semester composition. He is currently a teaching assistant in ENG 100 and will teach sections of the course next year (AY 2004). (contact Mr. Seth Thatcher )
8. Ms. Waller teaches AP English at an Eastern Kentucky High School. She has been teaching for some time. This lesson includes Chaucer, Pope, and satire. (contact Ms. Rosemary Waller )