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...
Dialogic Conference
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...
Exploring Plagiarism through Pop Culture Scenarios
Description and Purpose: This is intended to be a pop culture variant of an existing plagiarism exercise where students analyze scenarios...
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...
Comment Free-for-All
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to expand the overall cooperativeness of the students in the class and to increase their...
Five Things
Purpose: This exercise is designed to get the students more engaged with the assignment prompt early in the revision process and to give...
Puzzle Pieces: Effective Transitions
Purpose: This activity should help students identify effective and creative transitions in the essay by restructuring the final draft. It...
Don't Take This Exercise for Granted
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to explore ways of employing effective detail-driven transitions within their writing. By...
Looking for Connections between Ideas
Purpose: This exercise aims to teach students how to construct effective transitions in their writing and look for connections between...
Picturing Transitions: Narrating Scene Shifts
Purpose: This activity will help students create effective transitions between paragraphs and topics in their writing. It should also get...