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Blended composition course pattern: online lectures, readings, and writing exercises paired with weekly F2F feedback sessions

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Description

This course-level pattern splits a genre-based first-year composition course so that core content delivery and writing practice occur online while class time concentrates on discussion, workshop, and formative feedback. The blended version used "short recorded lectures, electronic readings, and frequent opportunities for online writing and feedback alongside weekly student-instructor interaction time," with recorded discussions of discipline-specific writing practices. Students absent from a session were required to view material, relate it to the textbook, and complete an online writing exercise for a nominal 2% mark.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A learning management system hosting video lectures, electronic readings, editing exercises, and an online dropbox; coordinated content, assignments, and rubrics when multiple instructors teach the format

Constraints

  • Students were required to attend two thirds of the course F2F; the online discussion group provided was not used by students; two instructors introduced variations in timing and delivery styles

Target Learners

  • first-year university composition students

Learning Goals

  • research writing, summary, analysis, persuasion, revision, and scholarly writing style

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Stouck, J. (2019). Complementary Learning: Piloting a Blended Format for Canadian Composition Courses. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2019.1.7992
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title Blended composition course pattern: online lectures, readings, and writing exercises paired with weekly F2F feedback sessions
description This course-level pattern splits a genre-based first-year composition course so that core content delivery and writing practice occur online while class time concentrates on discussion, workshop, and formative feedback.
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