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...

Comparing Digital Genres: Facebook, Twitter, and Text Messaging

Purpose: This activity provides students with a chance to develop and apply genre knowledge to digital genres to see how they are both...

Purpose: This exercise helps students articulate how genre plays a role in their understanding of their own writing and writing...

Purpose: This exercise helps students understand that genre is linked to rhetorical situation, and that the choice of genre is one a...

Purpose: This exercise is a great way to get students actively thinking outside of their understanding of genre in music and movies. It...

Purpose: This exercise helps students understand that writers use genre to reach a variety of different audiences (themselves, friends,...

Affiliated Project: Project 2: Researched Essay Purpose: This activity encourages students to see citation as a rhetorical activity aimed...

Affiliated Project: Project 3, Composition in Three Genres Purpose: Encourages students to think about multimodal projects and the effect...

Affiliated Project: This activity may be useful for Project III, when students are adapting their second projects into new genres. It may...

Affiliated Project: This activity helps to scaffold genre and conventions as well as understanding rhetorical situation; it is mostly...