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topCEI Publications
  • American Diploma Project Resources
    The American Diploma Project is a nationwide initiative to upgrade America's public schools. This Web page is provided by CEI to inform North Carolina Community College instructors of the implications of this project for English courses. This page provides important resources for student learning outcomes and assessment.

  • CEI Workload Study
    The charge given the Workload Task Force in October 1995 at the Valle Crucis CEI Fall Conference was to research and make workload recommendations to take effect with semester conversion in fall 1997. This is a reprint of the article published in the CEI Newsletter in 1996. The findings and recommendations are still relevant.

  • Communication Skills in the Workplace
    This article is reprinted from the March 1996 issue of the CEI Newsletter. Instructors may wish to use this document to motivate their students to develop effective communication skills.

  • Communication Competencies
    This article was published in the Fall 1995 issue of the CEI Newsletter. It was submitted to the chief academic officer and the department chair or lead English instructor in each of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina. The information was used by writing teams who developed course syllabi for the Common Course Library. This document is published now by CEI to provide guidance and suggestions for instructors. Instructors may find the competencies and acquisition and assessment strategies useful as they develop course objectives and assignments for their reading, composition, literature, humanities, and speech classes.

  • I Hate English
    Do you remember your first days as an English teacher? Can you remember the first time you heard a student say, "I hate English"? Award-winning author and English Professor Barbara Cole remembers her early days as an English teacher and remembers also why she became an English teacher in the first place.

  • Climbing Mt. Sinai in English
    "A wall of mountains rose around us, black as night itself, their tops only faint lines against a paler sky. Somewhere in the darkness was Mt. Sinai, which we would climb at midnight, hoping to reach the summit by sunrise." So begins this essay in which the author attempts to climb Mt. Sinai...but discovers on the way that her English composition class is in her pack.

topTeaching Guides
  • Advertisement Analysis Project
    This classroom application of authentic, problem-based learning was presented by Tami Sloane Thrasher, English instructor at Piedmont Community College at the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' Fall Conference 2001 at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on October 29, 2001. This presentation provides practical examples of collaborative activities for ENG 111 using real-world writing. Assignments are designed to integrate higher-order abilities (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) and multiple assessment strategies.

  • Authentic Learning Theory and Applications
    Tami Sloane Thrasher, English instructor at Piedmont Community College, presented a demonstration of authentic learning, or problem-based learning, at the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' Fall Conference 2001 at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on October 29, 2001. She provided learning theory and practical examples of collaborative activities for ENG 111 using real-world writing. She designs all her assignments to integrate higher-order abilities (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) and multiple assessment strategies.

  • Film Report
    "Film Report Assignment: Plot, Structure, and Meaning" by Rick Lewis of Sandhills Community College describes an assignment for students to look for different types of film narrative patterns and use those to find the meaning behind the conflicts and resolution in a film. The assignments includes evaluation criteria and resources for researching a film and narrative patterns used in films.

  • The Freshman Course Novel
    "The Freshman Course Novel: An All-campus Read to Create Community" by JoAnn Buck explains how Guilford Technical Community College created community within its college and the Greater Greensboro Area through involving students and community in the study of one novel and its author.

  • Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing
    In October 1989, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) adopted this statement on commitment to educational quality, professional standards that promote quality education (tenure-line faculty, graduate students, part-time faculty, and full-time temporary faculty), and teaching conditions necessary for quality education.

  • Throw Your Students Out of the Classroom!
    This teaching assignment was presented by Clemellyn H. Welch, lead English instructor at Central Carolina Community College at the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' Fall Conference 2001 at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on October 29, 2001. The presentation is a three-phase English 114 assignment during which students move beyond the college setting to explore their chosen careers. The project requires students to accomplish multiple tasks: setting up and conducting an interview, preparing a written report of interview results, and making an oral presentation of these results.

  • Writing Guides with Exercises
    These guides provide students with instruction and practices exercises in grammar, punctuation, and composition.

topCEI Fall Conferences
  • Fall Conference 2007
    "Pearls of Wisdom: Gems and Jewels for 35 Years," Broyhill Inn & Conference Center, Boone, NC

  • Fall Conference 2006
    "Mission Impossible: Inspiring the Love of Learning," Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC

  • Fall Conference 2005
    "Navigating Competency: Charting the Future," Blockade Runner Beach Resort and Conference Center, Wrightsville Beach, NC

  • Fall Conference 2004
    "Finding the Pony: Promoting Academic Excellence in the Community College," Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC

  • Fall Conference 2003
    "Expanding Our Boundaries," Broyhill Inn & Conference Center, Boone, NC

  • Fall Conference 2002
    "Sustaining Excellence on a Shoestring Budget," Summit Conference Center in Brown Summit, NC

  • Fall Conference 2001
    "Uncommon Approaches to Common Courses," Blockade Runner Beach Resort and Conference Center, Wrightsville Beach, NC

  • Fall Conference 2000
    "Nurturing the Humanities in a Technological World," Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC

  • Fall Conference 1999
    "To Write, to Speak, to Be: Students as Successful Communicators," Holiday Inn Conference Center, Southern Pines, NC

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Updated Friday, November 30, 2007