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...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise works well with an Ad-buster paper or project, or other cultural analysis/textual essay. It considers...

Objectives: This class activity/discussion and subsequent assignment has three overarching goals: (1) for students to begin to develop a...

Purpose: This exercise was designed to help students investigate blogs as a possible research source, and also as a potential genre in...

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to guide students through the process of narrowing down an intentionally broad research topic...

Objective: Student writers will create a typographical experiment that demonstrates an understanding of audience and visual rhetoric. ...