Comparing Digital Genres: Facebook, Twitter, and Text Messaging
Purpose: This activity provides students with a chance to develop and apply genre knowledge to digital genres to see how they are both...
Genre and Reflection Exercise: Using Reflection to Understand Genre
Purpose: This exercise helps students articulate how genre plays a role in their understanding of their own writing and writing...
Genre and Rhetorical Situation: Choosing an Appropriate Genre
Purpose: This exercise helps students understand that genre is linked to rhetorical situation, and that the choice of genre is one a...
Genre Scavenger Hunt
Purpose: This exercise is a great way to get students actively thinking outside of their understanding of genre in music and movies. It...
Linking Movies and Music to Genres of Writing
Purpose: This exercise helps students understand that writers use genre to reach a variety of different audiences (themselves, friends,...
Dialogue: From Screen to Page
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is for students to develop their skills of mixing dialogue with action. Also for them to practice...
Underline, List, and Highlight: Improving Drafts in Conference
Purpose: This exercise helps students analyze three essential elements of their paper: thesis, arguments and research. It can be applied...
Conducting Student-centered Conferences
Purpose: These strategies will help instructors organize and structure effective student-centered conference sessions. Description: This...
Conducting Group Conferences
Purpose: Sometimes you might want to try conducting group conferences with two or more students. This can make the conference week—which...
Title Awards
Affiliated Project: Project 2, especially as a research paper; also works for Project 1 essays. Purpose of Exercise: This activity...