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ENGL 101 / WRIT 102 · College Writing Center Module · CC BY 4.0 OPEN MODULE
First-Year University Composition, Digital Rhetoric & Register Shift
Target courses: First-year college writing seminars, rhetoric courses, and university writing centers.
Learning Objectives
- Distinguish between high-context peer register (group chat, Discord) and low-context institutional prose (academic and workplace writing).
- Translate informal idioms into precise analytical prose without losing pragmatic intent.
Assigned Open-Access Readings (Harvard Dataverse & CERN Zenodo)
- Workplace, Corporate & Digital Culture Lexicon (Vol. 2) ↗ — DataCite DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.23544771 - Interactive Corporate ↔ Gen Z Register Translator ↗ — DataCite DOI:
10.7910/DVN/IOIADB
Seminar Discussion & Lab Prompts
- Run a paragraph of corporate jargon through SlangLane’s Register Translator (/roast). Which register obscures agency more: corporate euphemism or teen slang?
Fieldwork & Assessment Assignment
Select one workplace or digital culture entry from SlangLane (/topics/workplace) and write a 500-word rhetorical analysis of what institutional anxiety the word names.
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COURSE MODULE: First-Year University Composition, Digital Rhetoric & Register Shift (ENGL 101 / WRIT 102 · College Writing Center Module) Open Educational Resource (CC BY 4.0) · Archived in Harvard Dataverse (doi:10.7910/DVN/IOIADB) & CERN Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23541347) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Distinguish between high-context peer register (group chat, Discord) and low-context institutional prose (academic and workplace writing). 2. Translate informal idioms into precise analytical prose without losing pragmatic intent. ASSIGNED OPEN-ACCESS READINGS (ZERO COST / NO LOGIN): • Workplace, Corporate & Digital Culture Lexicon (Vol. 2): https://slanglane.com/papers/SlangLane-Workplace-and-Digital-Culture-Lexicon.pdf (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23544771) • Interactive Corporate ↔ Gen Z Register Translator: https://slanglane.com/roast (DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IOIADB) SEMINAR DISCUSSION PROMPTS: • Run a paragraph of corporate jargon through SlangLane’s Register Translator (/roast). Which register obscures agency more: corporate euphemism or teen slang? GRADED FIELDWORK ASSIGNMENT: Select one workplace or digital culture entry from SlangLane (/topics/workplace) and write a 500-word rhetorical analysis of what institutional anxiety the word names.
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