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...

Purpose: Helping students develop knowledge about organizational structures and formatting common to academic articles, so that can use ...

Purpose: Helping students learn to actively read texts, how to take notes on readings, and gain an understanding of their preferred...

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...

Purpose: Students will focus on finding and strengthening their own voice and balancing their source material/incorporating their source...

Purpose: This exercise focuses on research article revision. Description: This revision exercise helps students identify source-heavy...

Purpose of Exercise: How many times have you tried teaching your students MLA guidelines, and in how many ways? Maybe it was a Jeopardy...

Purpose: These student-led group presentations will help students become familiar with information in their research writing text--The...

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