Tinder, Dating Sites, and Genre

Affiliated Project: Exploring Genre Through Rhetorical Analysis Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to get students articulating...

Changing Voices: The Helpful and Unhelpful Voices in Our Heads

Purpose: This exercise should be helpful when students are feeling stuck in the middle of their writing (and semester) and lack any fresh...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise fosters creative thinking in descriptions, development of voice, and playing effectively with sarcasm....

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise raises awareness of rhetorical situation and audience when developing voice. Works well with the...

Purpose of Exercise: How to push back against existing genres. How to compose an anti-genre. This will help students see genres as being...

Purpose of Exercise: To show students how they might consider audience in how they choose to write. Also, to help students see how...

Purpose of Exercise: To get a series of investigative questions that help students interrogate their specific, chosen genre. Description:...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise is designed to discuss the difference between topic and genre. Description: This is an exercise for...

Purpose of the Exercise: Students learn about the benefits of drawing a verbal picture in the first paragraph of a composition....

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise shows students the complex relationship between an object and the language we use to describe it....