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...
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...
“AC/DC? No, AB/BC!” Arrangement for Transition and Emphasis
Purpose: This brief editorial exercise shows students how transitions are created through arrangement and how arrangement can be used to...
Out of Sequence: Organization and Transition Exercise
Purpose: This activity challenges students to order paragraphs logically and create smooth transition sentences, teaching them to...
Titles (say so much)
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to help students recognize the importance of titles, showing students that there needs to be a...
The Wet Beagle: Show Me, Don't Tell Me Workshop
Purpose: To prepare students for workshopping and the writing of their first paper. An easy exercise for demonstrating descriptive...
Proofreading Pitfalls Handout for Self-Editing
Purpose: This short paragraph makes a good handout, or discussion-started on the overhead some time before the final drafts of a paper...