English Essay Syllabus 
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. The Turnitin similarity score of a student essay in one of Adam Kaiserman’s classes at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita on May 6, 2025.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
But this year, with the arrival of the World Cup, I came prepared, and my students knew it when they saw our sports journalism unit built into the syllabus on the first day. Still, by and large, I’m an extreme disappointment to my student-athletes and sports fans alike. Are these days blocked off for the World Cup?!” they exclaimed.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 7, 2024
First, I told students via my syllabus that if I received a report saying a paper had AI content, they could be considered to be cheating if they could not provide proof of authorship. To that end, my English department is using Google Docs this semester to provide better evidence. My essay didn’t pass the AI-generated content test.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 7, 2024
First, I told students via my syllabus that if I received a report saying a paper had AI content, they could be considered to be cheating if they could not provide proof of authorship. To that end, my English department is using Google Docs this semester to provide better evidence. My essay didn’t pass the AI-generated content test.
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2019
I once expressed to the principal my hope that she would be considering teachers of color as candidates for an opening in our English department. Topics of race, nationality, class, gender and sexual orientation were all folded into my syllabus. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2024
Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.
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