How to Eat a Poem
Purpose: When reading poetry, students so often feel pressure to find the “deeper” or “underlying” meaning. This exercise is meant to...
Sofa to 5k: Active Reading
Purpose: This exercise demonstrates the relationship between active-reading and efficient-reading. Students should learn that attentive...
Finding the Commonalities: Investing Organizational Structures and Formatting of Academic Articles
Purpose: Helping students develop knowledge about organizational structures and formatting common to academic articles, so that can use ...
Appealing to an Audience: How Publications Set a Tone with Content, Structure and Design
Purpose: Understanding how journals and newspapers set a particular tone for their audiences and how writing style changes across...
Active Reading: Marking Up the Text and Dialogic Journals
Purpose: Helping students learn to actively read texts, how to take notes on readings, and gain an understanding of their preferred...
Writing a Zine Agreement
Purpose: This exercise leads students through the process of planning their zine. It encourages them to figure out what will be included...
Documenting Class Events with Blogging
Purpose: This exercise demonstrates how various media and individual experiences can shape our interpretations of an event. This is also...
Advertising Influence: Thinking and Writing about Cultural Influence
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to think about and write on their cultural influences and what makes them associate particular...
Devil's Advocate: What are You REALLY Saying?
Purpose: This exercise is an attempt to get students to see that what they think they have written is not always what they actually have...
Balancing Your Voice with Others
Purpose: Students will focus on finding and strengthening their own voice and balancing their source material/incorporating their source...