Below you will find materials—handouts, writing exercises, in-class activities, assignment prompts, and more—for teaching courses in literature and/or Reading and Composition, many of them developed or adapted by Graduate Student Instructors in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. We aim to diversify these offerings to encompass resources for teaching writing in a wider range of humanities disciplines. In the meantime, we believe that many of these materials will prove useful to writing instructors in humanities disciplines of all stripes.
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