Repainting Starry Night: Visual/Textual Remediation and Analysis
Purpose of Exercise: Allows the students to look critically and interpretively at visual images as well as practicing close reading of...
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...
Exploring Culture: The Influence of Ads
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise works well with an Ad-buster paper or project, or other cultural analysis/textual essay. It considers...
Who is Barack Obama?: Analyzing and Constructing a Visual Argument
Objectives: This class activity/discussion and subsequent assignment has three overarching goals: (1) for students to begin to develop a...
The Source-berg: An Exercise in Source Lineage
What are we doing?* This assignment is developed as part of a composition course that focuses on making connections and transitions...
Blog Exploration and Analysis
Purpose: This exercise was designed to help students investigate blogs as a possible research source, and also as a potential genre in...
Multimodal "Pre-Write"
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to guide students through the process of narrowing down an intentionally broad research topic...
Worth a Thousand Words
Time Required: 30-40 minutes (maybe more?) Goals/Purpose: This exercise encourages students to think of images more critically, to...
Experiment with Typography
Objective: Student writers will create a typographical experiment that demonstrates an understanding of audience and visual rhetoric. ...