Lumen Learning’s new Composition course will be delivered in Lumen One, a new platform that brings together the best of Lumen’s teaching and learning solutions including a full suite of professional development resources to support evidence-based teaching. Lumen One helps students master concepts and skills through engaging practice activities and frequent questioning with targeted feedback.
This course is a comprehensive English Composition course, covering all of the essential content about the writing process, rhetorical styles, and writing successfully for college. There is embedded co-requisite support for students needing additional guidance to write college level essays and AI-assisted assignments. This course is designed to support a wide-range of modalities and support a full suite of Composition courses.
The Instructor resources package is robust and includes accessible and engaging slides and in-class activities. We can also assist you if you want to keep already existing assignments in your course or use new assignments. The Lumen One instructor guides include suggested modifications based on the modality of the course.
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Combining the best features across Lumen Learning, Lumen One is designed with learning tools and processes that better support learning and give every student the chance to succeed. Lumen One’s unique features are specifically designed to boost participation, engagement, and overall learning to ensure success for all students.
Highlight features of Lumen One:
- Tools to create and foster connection between faculty and students.
- A Faculty Engagement center that provides faculty with easy-to-access actionable data to enable timely interventions when students need it the most.
- Varied, relevant content designed to engage students.
- Personalized study plans with immediate feedback to reinforce strong study skills.
- Easy-to-use automated messaging tools to better support students.
- Supported peer community to provide students with meaningful help from subject matter experts and peers.
- Embedded resources to support faculty to use effective teaching practices and easily do their best work.
Content
Success Skills
- Habits for Success
- Time Management
- Writing and Communication in College
- Technology in Writing
- Critical Thinking as Reflection
Reading Strategies
- Active Reading Strategies
- Specialized Reading Strategies
- Rhetorical Context
- Vocabulary-Building Strategies
- Types of Reading Materials
Writing Essentials
- Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences
- Effective Paragraph Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions
- Audience Analysis
- Writing Strong Sentences
Writing in College
- College Writing Tasks
- Common Essay Assignments
- Narrative Writing
- Modes of Communication and Multimodality
Grammar Essentials
- Punctuation
- Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
- Commas
- Semicolons and Colons
- Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences
The Writing Process
- Topic Selection
- Prewriting Strategies
- Finding Evidence
- Organizing Essays
- Drafting
Revising and Proofreading
- What is Revision?
- Peer Review
- Revision Strategies
- Editing and Proofreading
Analysis and Synthesis
- What is Analysis
- Keys to Successful Analysis
- Inference
- Rhetorical, Process, and Critical Analysis
- Synthesis
Academic Argument
- Argumentative Essays
- Logical Arguments and Reasoning
- Rhetorical Appeals
- Logical Fallacies
- Counterarguments
Finding and Evaluating Sources
- The Research Process
- Narrowing a Topic and Research Questions
- Finding Sources
- Source Analysis, CRAP and SIFT Methods
- Annotated Bibliographies
Using and Citing Sources
- Integrating Source Material
- Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
- Copyright and Openly-Licensed Materials
- MLA Citations and Formatting
- APA Citations and Formatting
Grammar Basics
- Nouns and Pronouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Articles
- Sentence Structure
- Subjects and Predicates
- Direct and Indirect Objects
- Phrases and Clauses
Additional Course Features
These course materials include:
- Waymaker Courseware: User-friendly Waymaker learning tools improve success for at-risk students with personalized study plans, automated study tips and nudges, and early alerts to identify and help struggling students.
- Outcome-aligned OER: Designed to replace expensive textbooks, this course curates the best available open educational resources (OER) aligned with learning outcomes. Teach it as-is or customize to fit your needs.
- LMS Integration: This course is delivered with seamless LMS integration and automatic grade return for Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Moodle.
- Accessibility: Lumen is 100% committed to providing learning materials that are accessible to all learners. Lumen course materials are mobile-friendly.
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What People Are Saying
“Lumen Learning has been a great partner for us with our work. Everyone has been helpful, and they care about students, which is my main concern.” – Guy Krueger, University of Mississippi
Teaching with Lumen Course Materials
- Replace expensive textbooks | Ready-to-adopt open educational resources (OER) include text, videos, simulations, self-checks, and other interactives.
- Choose affordability | Low cost to students.
- Use better content | Continuous, data-driven improvements make OER content more effective at supporting learning.
- Simplify access | Easy access to course materials in your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Moodle) plus automatic grade return.
- Improve student outcomes | Research shows Lumen course materials can improve academic performance, passing rates, and course completion.
FOR INSTRUCTORS
- Connect with students | Instructor and student tools designed to help strengthen communication.
- Save time | Start with curated, outcome-aligned OER and supplemental instructor resources like quiz banks, assignments, slide decks, etc.
- Customize your course | Freedom to tailor course content to fit your learning outcomes and instructional approach.
- Enjoy awesome support | Faculty-friendly onboarding, training, and support.
FOR STUDENTS
- Learn by doing | Online homework, self-check activities, and other interactive tools strengthen learning.
- Engage from day one | Avoid falling behind with access to course materials from the first day of class.
- Retain materials | Download a digital copy of course content to keep forever.
- Become a better learner | Real-time feedback guides students on where to focus and how to improve.
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