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...

Purpose: This activity should help students identify effective and creative transitions in the essay by restructuring the final draft. It...

Purpose: This exercise aims to teach students how to construct effective transitions in their writing and look for connections between...

Purpose: This activity will help students create effective transitions between paragraphs and topics in their writing. It should also get...

Purpose: This brief editorial exercise shows students how transitions are created through arrangement and how arrangement can be used to...

Purpose: This activity challenges students to order paragraphs logically and create smooth transition sentences, teaching them to...

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to help students recognize the importance of titles, showing students that there needs to be a...

Purpose: To prepare students for workshopping and the writing of their first paper. An easy exercise for demonstrating descriptive...

Purpose: This short paragraph makes a good handout, or discussion-started on the overhead some time before the final drafts of a paper...