How to Eat a Poem
Purpose: When reading poetry, students so often feel pressure to find the “deeper” or “underlying” meaning. This exercise is meant to...
Appealing to an Audience: How Publications Set a Tone with Content, Structure and Design
Purpose: Understanding how journals and newspapers set a particular tone for their audiences and how writing style changes across...
Tinder, Dating Sites, and Genre
Affiliated Project: Exploring Genre Through Rhetorical Analysis Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to get students articulating...
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...
Brain Teaser: Voice Without Word Choice
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise fosters creative thinking in descriptions, development of voice, and playing effectively with sarcasm....
Audience and Voice Exercise
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise raises awareness of rhetorical situation and audience when developing voice. Works well with the...
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...
Abstract Shapes: The Importance of Visual Description
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise shows students the complex relationship between an object and the language we use to describe it....