

Genre and Reflection Exercise: Using Reflection to Understand Genre
Purpose: This exercise helps students articulate how genre plays a role in their understanding of their own writing and writing...


Genre and Rhetorical Situation: Choosing an Appropriate Genre
Purpose: This exercise helps students understand that genre is linked to rhetorical situation, and that the choice of genre is one a...


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


Linking Movies and Music to Genres of Writing
Purpose: This exercise helps students understand that writers use genre to reach a variety of different audiences (themselves, friends,...


Dialogue: Tell Me How You Really Feel
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is for students to develop their skills of mixing dialogue with action. Description: Communication...


Dialogue: From Screen to Page
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is for students to develop their skills of mixing dialogue with action. Also for them to practice...


Dialogue: Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Changing Your Story
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is for students to develop their skills in writing dialogue that both reveals character and moves...


Dialogue: "I think I've heard this one before"
Purpose: Students will practice managing large sections of dialogue in a single setting. Description: Raymond Carver wrote several...


Dialogue: "Are We Still Talking about Doing Dishes?"
Purpose: Students will practice writing dialogue that builds tension through subtext and disagreement while avoiding dialogue as...


What Is It? Enriching Descriptive Writing
Purpose: This exercise stimulates students to enrich their descriptive writing by using a plain object and writing about it in an...