Tinder, Dating Sites, and Genre
Affiliated Project: Exploring Genre Through Rhetorical Analysis Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to get students articulating...
Genre Speed Dating
Purpose of Exercise: To get a series of investigative questions that help students interrogate their specific, chosen genre. Description:...
Repainting Starry Night: Visual/Textual Remediation and Analysis
Purpose of Exercise: Allows the students to look critically and interpretively at visual images as well as practicing close reading of...
Play It Again, Sam: Summary vs. Analysis in Movie Clips
Purpose: To help students differentiate between analysis and summary and then apply that knowledge to their own drafts. This works in...
Lunch: Thinking about Generalizing and Stereotyping
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise challenges students to think about how they (over) generalize or stereotype groups of people through...
Exploring Culture: The Influence of Ads
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise works well with an Ad-buster paper or project, or other cultural analysis/textual essay. It considers...