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Research: using current events
in college composition courses
has benefits!

The use of current events in college composition courses showed exciting results in a recent study! Student participants increased navigational speeds with dictionaries and connected to full-length pieces of literature. Critical thinking skills enhanced and an interest in community involvement increased. Attrition rates declined

and the number of missed assignments decreased. Best yet: the overall mechanics of students' writing improved and an awareness of current events elevated!

Customize ​lessons for any level of the English writing college curriculum!

Do you teach a basic writing course or something more advanced? Is your composition course a requirement or an elective? Do you work with grammatical guides, textbooks, predesigned exercises, novels, memoirs, period pieces, fiction, nonfiction, or anthologies? Events in English says, "Stay with it, but add a component of current events!" There is a way to use current events in just about any English composition course without straying from the published course description!

Different colleges require different materials.
Regionalize any lesson.

Whether you lead groups at a community college or a larger university, in a suburb or city, or on the east or west coast or anywhere in-between, Events in English believes there are materials that meet the needs of your college students of writing. Events in English recognizes the best part of any college experience: students and faculty of different races, ethnicities, ages, and genders, and of all backgrounds! There is a current-events-based composition lesson for everyone!

Need a refresher? Your syllabus can be as current as today's events.

Essayist, novelist, and short-story writer Allan Gurganus said, "Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events." So if you are tired of the same, old syllabus, or if your classroom lessons are not going as planned, adding current events to your writing course may be just the thing you need. You can update your syllabus or any rubric to coincide with the changing discussions that come with topical affairs. Breaking news could mean breaking the mold!

Suggestions for Use
For Compositions:
 

  • Grammatical guides

  • Predesigned writing exercises

  • Textbooks

  • Novels and other full-length pieces of literature from any genre

  • Short stories

  • Collections of essays

  • Written narratives

 

 

For Current Events:
 

  • Local and national newspapers

  • Local and national television news broadcasts

  • Talk radio stations

  • News-related Web sites

  • Images of recent and historical occurrences

  • News-related magazines

  • Opinion/editorial publications

 

 

Combine any of the above selections

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