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...
Writing a Zine Agreement
Purpose: This exercise leads students through the process of planning their zine. It encourages them to figure out what will be included...
Documenting Class Events with Blogging
Purpose: This exercise demonstrates how various media and individual experiences can shape our interpretations of an event. This is also...
Advertising Influence: Thinking and Writing about Cultural Influence
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to think about and write on their cultural influences and what makes them associate particular...
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...
Comment Free-for-All
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to expand the overall cooperativeness of the students in the class and to increase their...
Five Things
Purpose: This exercise is designed to get the students more engaged with the assignment prompt early in the revision process and to give...
Puzzle Pieces: Effective Transitions
Purpose: This activity should help students identify effective and creative transitions in the essay by restructuring the final draft. It...
Don't Take This Exercise for Granted
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to explore ways of employing effective detail-driven transitions within their writing. By...