Rhetorical Appeals With a Side of Fries

Purpose: Through comedy and recognizable references to fast food restaurants, students will see how hyperbole and drama are used for...

Exposing the Iceberg: An Exercise in Description and Style

Purpose: This exercise focuses on two skills: writing detailed descriptions and practicing different genres/styles. In most cases, it is...

Purpose: This is an exercise on effectively using images in poetry and prose, and it accompanies Philip Cory Cloud's “Home.” Description:...

Purpose: This exercise encourages students to discover and invent convincing details. This is a good exercise to use in the beginning of...

Purpose: This exercise stimulates students to enrich their descriptive writing by using a plain object and writing about it in an...

Purpose: This activity could be useful as a tool for exploring the use of sensory detail and memory to express emotions; it teaches...

Purpose of Exercise: Fosters creative exploration of point of view, detailed description, and narrative as individuals and...

Purpose: This activity is intended to inspire students to write very descriptively, and it can be used as an invention exercise for a...

Purpose: This activity helps students develop their ideas and can be used at any stage in the writing process, but is often most helpful...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise shows students the complex relationship between an object and the language we use to describe it....