Title Awards
Affiliated Project: Project 2, especially as a research paper; also works for Project 1 essays. Purpose of Exercise: This activity...
MLA as Genre Element
Affiliated Project: Project 2: Researched Essay Purpose: This activity encourages students to see citation as a rhetorical activity aimed...
Valkyries Lesson Plan
Affiliated Project: Project 3, Composition in Three Genres Purpose: Encourages students to think about multimodal projects and the effect...
Re-cut Movie Trailers
Affiliated Project: This activity may be useful for Project III, when students are adapting their second projects into new genres. It may...
Understanding Genre through Music
Affiliated Project: This activity helps to scaffold genre and conventions as well as understanding rhetorical situation; it is mostly...
Remixing Genres
Affiliated Project: This activity may be useful for Project III, when students are adapting their second projects into new genres. It may...
Tinder, Dating Sites, and Genre
Affiliated Project: Exploring Genre Through Rhetorical Analysis Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to get students articulating...
Changing Voices: The Helpful and Unhelpful Voices in Our Heads
Purpose: This exercise should be helpful when students are feeling stuck in the middle of their writing (and semester) and lack any fresh...
Brain Teaser: Voice Without Word Choice
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise fosters creative thinking in descriptions, development of voice, and playing effectively with sarcasm....
Audience and Voice Exercise
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise raises awareness of rhetorical situation and audience when developing voice. Works well with the...