Titles (say so much)

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to help students recognize the importance of titles, showing students that there needs to be a...

Food and Family: Description

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 is a handout-style exercise for protagonist development in writing short stories. Description: You might...

Purpose: This exercise fosters creative thinking in descriptions, development of voice, and playing effectively with sarcasm....

Purpose: These strategies are intended to help facilitate the early-stage conference; they particularly focus on invention, outlining,...

Purpose: This exercise was designed to help students investigate blogs as a possible research source, and also as a potential genre in...

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to guide students through the process of narrowing down an intentionally broad research topic...

Time Required: 30-40 minutes (maybe more?) Goals/Purpose: This exercise encourages students to think of images more critically, to...