Talking About Genre By Mapping Texts in Composition Courses
Purpose: I’ve used versions of this lesson in the various composition courses I’ve taught. It has quite a few access points for linking...
Valkyries Lesson Plan
Affiliated Project: Project 3, Composition in Three Genres Purpose: Encourages students to think about multimodal projects and the effect...
Changing Voices: The Helpful and Unhelpful Voices in Our Heads
Purpose: This exercise should be helpful when students are feeling stuck in the middle of their writing (and semester) and lack any fresh...
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Purpose of Exercise: To show students how they might consider audience in how they choose to write. Also, to help students see how...
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...
Writer's Eye
This activity asks students to use images from the Museum of Modern Art as invention inspiration for either a poem or prose piece....
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...
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. ...