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...
Finding the Commonalities: Investing Organizational Structures and Formatting of Academic Articles
Purpose: Helping students develop knowledge about organizational structures and formatting common to academic articles, so that can use ...
Active Reading: Marking Up the Text and Dialogic Journals
Purpose: Helping students learn to actively read texts, how to take notes on readings, and gain an understanding of their preferred...
Devil's Advocate: What are You REALLY Saying?
Purpose: This exercise is an attempt to get students to see that what they think they have written is not always what they actually have...
Balancing Your Voice with Others
Purpose: Students will focus on finding and strengthening their own voice and balancing their source material/incorporating their source...
Curious Researcher Teaching Groups
Purpose: These student-led group presentations will help students become familiar with information in their research writing text--The...
Boring Topic Makeover
Purpose: This exercise will show students how to choose a strong thesis for the research paper assignment by teaching them to avoid...
In Quest of Culture: Topic Generating for Research Essay
Purpose: A Topic-generating Exercise best suited to a culture-oriented researched essay assignment. This exercise helps students learn...
MLA as Genre Element
Affiliated Project: Project 2: Researched Essay Purpose: This activity encourages students to see citation as a rhetorical activity aimed...
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...