Welcome to our student-facing website for our co-requisite English ALP Program!
You may be here because your ALP instructor has assigned you to examine resources or complete assignments common to the teaching of this course.
You can navigate through major topics and projects--including strategies for Academic Reading and written modes and genres including Narrative, Profile, Ethnography, Analysis, and the Infographic--using the menu at the top of your page.
And on this page, to get you started, we've posted a few materials that help contextualize what a course like English ALP is really all about.
The article, by L. Lennie Irvin, provides an introduction to the nature of academic writing. It emphasizes that academic writing involves more than just correct grammar—it requires engaging with ideas, constructing arguments, and thinking critically. The piece offers strategies to help students adapt to academic expectations. Perhaps most relevant to you, Irvin discusses common misconceptions, such as believing that writing should always be perfect from the first draft.
This article, in Composing Ourselves and Our World, offers strategies for breaking down different writing task, with a particular focus on the Narrative, Rhetorical Analysis, Research Paper, and Summary/Response genres. It also breaks down some key terms.
You will see a lot of emphasis placed on working through the writing process and/or developing an effective writing process throughout this OER. Use this video by Phil Sloan and the article (linked above) by Andy Gurevich to help put "the writing process" into context. Both emphasize that the process is rhetorical and adaptable.
Copyright 2025 by Amy Camp, Mary Childers, and Nicole Matos. This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license, except where otherwise noted. Content provided by Landmark College is under copyright and used with permission.
Our warmest thanks to all those who supported this project, particularly our Developmental English colleagues Dr. Karin Evans and Liz Adames; Instructional Technologist Lara Tompkins; Dean of Liberal Arts, Dr. Robyn Schiffman; Chair of the OER Committee, Dr. Lauren Kosrow; and the college's division of Academic Affairs. Thanks also to Landmark College, in particular, for their generous sharing of educational resources by permission.