Dinner Party Prewriting
Purpose: To help students use research in their essays and begin organizing their information, specifically in terms of synthesizing...
Sofa to 5k: Active Reading
Purpose: This exercise demonstrates the relationship between active-reading and efficient-reading. Students should learn that attentive...
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...
Developing Source Dialogue—Revising Researched Writing
Purpose: This exercise focuses on research article revision. Description: This revision exercise helps students identify source-heavy...
Citation Remediation
Purpose of Exercise: How many times have you tried teaching your students MLA guidelines, and in how many ways? Maybe it was a Jeopardy...
Curious Researcher Teaching Groups
Purpose: These student-led group presentations will help students become familiar with information in their research writing text--The...
MLA as Genre Element
Affiliated Project: Project 2: Researched Essay Purpose: This activity encourages students to see citation as a rhetorical activity aimed...