Sir Mix-a-Lot: Hybrid and Anti-Genres

Purpose of Exercise: How to push back against existing genres. How to compose an anti-genre. This will help students see genres as being...

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Purpose of Exercise: To show students how they might consider audience in how they choose to write. Also, to help students see how...

Purpose of Exercise: To get a series of investigative questions that help students interrogate their specific, chosen genre. Description:...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise is designed to discuss the difference between topic and genre. Description: This is an exercise for...

Purpose of the Exercise: Students learn about the benefits of drawing a verbal picture in the first paragraph of a composition....

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise shows students the complex relationship between an object and the language we use to describe it....

Purpose of Exercise: Allows the students to look critically and interpretively at visual images as well as practicing close reading of...

Purpose: To help students differentiate between analysis and summary and then apply that knowledge to their own drafts. This works in...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise challenges students to think about how they (over) generalize or stereotype groups of people through...

Purpose of Exercise: This exercise works well with an Ad-buster paper or project, or other cultural analysis/textual essay. It considers...