Underline, List, and Highlight: Improving Drafts in Conference
Purpose: This exercise helps students analyze three essential elements of their paper: thesis, arguments and research. It can be applied...
Conducting Student-centered Conferences
Purpose: These strategies will help instructors organize and structure effective student-centered conference sessions. Description: This...
Early-stage Conference
Purpose: These strategies are intended to help facilitate the early-stage conference; they particularly focus on invention, outlining,...
Conducting Group Conferences
Purpose: Sometimes you might want to try conducting group conferences with two or more students. This can make the conference week—which...
Title Awards
Affiliated Project: Project 2, especially as a research paper; also works for Project 1 essays. Purpose of Exercise: This activity...
MLA as Genre Element
Affiliated Project: Project 2: Researched Essay Purpose: This activity encourages students to see citation as a rhetorical activity aimed...
Valkyries Lesson Plan
Affiliated Project: Project 3, Composition in Three Genres Purpose: Encourages students to think about multimodal projects and the effect...
Re-cut Movie Trailers
Affiliated Project: This activity may be useful for Project III, when students are adapting their second projects into new genres. It may...
Understanding Genre through Music
Affiliated Project: This activity helps to scaffold genre and conventions as well as understanding rhetorical situation; it is mostly...
Remixing Genres
Affiliated Project: This activity may be useful for Project III, when students are adapting their second projects into new genres. It may...