Rhetorical Appeals With a Side of Fries

Purpose: Through comedy and recognizable references to fast food restaurants, students will see how hyperbole and drama are used for...

Talking About Genre By Mapping Texts in Composition Courses

Purpose: I’ve used versions of this lesson in the various composition courses I’ve taught. It has quite a few access points for linking...

Purpose: To help students use research in their essays and begin organizing their information, specifically in terms of synthesizing...

Purpose: This is an activity meant to be done in preparation for one-on-one conferences with students. It's meant to keep the dialogue of...

Description and Purpose: This is intended to be a pop culture variant of an existing plagiarism exercise where students analyze scenarios...

Purpose: This exercise focuses on two skills: writing detailed descriptions and practicing different genres/styles. In most cases, it is...

Purpose: When reading poetry, students so often feel pressure to find the “deeper” or “underlying” meaning. This exercise is meant to...

Purpose: This exercise demonstrates the relationship between active-reading and efficient-reading. Students should learn that attentive...

Purpose: Helping students develop knowledge about organizational structures and formatting common to academic articles, so that can use ...

Purpose: Understanding how journals and newspapers set a particular tone for their audiences and how writing style changes across...