Activities

Using Community Listening to Collaboratively Develop an Assignment with Students

Activities, collaboration and group work, Community-engaged writing, demystifying writing assignments, professional writing, writing myths and anxiety /

Gabrielle Isabel Kelenyi Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Assignments often take a few iterations to get just right so that students consistently produce the essay, project, or presentation the instructor had in mind, let alone demonstrate the assignment’s learning objectives. What would happen if instructors modeled “community listening” (Jackson & Whitehorse DeLaune; Rowan & […]

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Analyzing AI-to-AI Debate as Rhetorical Observation

Activities, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, genre and discourse community, observation, reflection, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, writing technologies /

Daewoo Jin Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity aims at developing students’ ability to distinguish statistical text generation from human meaning-making by observing how two AI systems exchange directed arguments in response to short, human-written prose. Students analyze rhetorical clarity, disruption, and absence in AI-to-AI debate transcripts, within one class meeting, and in

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Reading Against the Machine

Activities, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, metacognition, reading, reading strategies /

Scott DeLoach Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description In this activity, students practice using generative AI tools as reading partners while strengthening their metacognitive awareness through the Reading Apprenticeship framework. Reading Apprenticeship is a framework that supports students in developing expert reading habits by making thinking processes visible and shared. It integrates four key dimensions

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Developing Details: Embodied Writing Activity

Activities, collaboration and group work, observation, Process, reflection, rhetorical situation /

Alexandra Chakov Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The purpose of this activity is to have students explore the ways their body is part of their writing process. Writing is not just a mental activity—it also involves the body. The body types out words or commands speech-to-text; the body feels anxiety as deadlines approach and

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The Nature Journal: Observing, Naming, Knowing Kara Mae Brown

Activities, Community-engaged writing, nature writing, observation, Place-based Writing, reflection, rhetorical ecology /

Kara Mae Brown Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Writing is a powerful tool for understanding and communicating about the natural world. In turn, the places that writing happens inform, influence, and shape the writing. As Madison Percy Jones writes, “writing emerges out of the reciprocal interaction of writers and the complex rhetorical ecologies. Place

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Who Tells My Writing Story Better? Exploring Genre, Voice, and AI “Silences”

Activities, critical thought and analysis, genAI, genre and discourse community, narrative and storytelling, rhetorical situation /

Tara Al-Hadithy Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity invites students in a ‘Writing for University and Beyond’ undergraduate-level writing course to critically analyze and reflect on generative AI use while fostering rhetorical awareness. Students revisit their already written “My Writing Story” essay through the lens of rhetorical moves and compare their writing to

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Shaping Multilingual Identity: Translanguaging Practices Through Digital Storytelling Workshop

Activities, digital literacy, identity, narrative and storytelling, social media, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Alexandra Krasova Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This workshop was initially designed for undergraduate multilingual students participating in my dissertation study. My participants had some background experience in creating digital stories for social media, such as TikTok or Instagram. However, digital storytelling with integrated translanguaging practices for academic purposes was a new and unique

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Ethical Use of Generative AI for Conducting Research

Activities, genAI, metacognition, Process, reflection, research /

Aimee Jones Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity demonstrates how to ethically use two Generative AI tools in the research stage of the writing process. In the last year, AI writing tools, most notably Chat GPT, have generated academic-integrity related concerns for university administrators and instructors. In a study conducted from the Spring

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What Is Writing Like for You? Using Metaphors to Explain Writing and Writer’s Block Experiences in First-Year Writing

Activities, collaboration and group work, demystifying writing assignments, Process /

Olivia Imirie Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity about writing metaphors is ideal for the first 1-2 weeks of the term and was originally developed for a first-year writing course. Students often struggle to talk about writing and their challenges with the writing process. They use statements such as “I don’t like writing,”

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Experimenting with Style: Cyborg Voices

Activities, genAI, grammar and mechanics, Process, rhetorical situation, Style /

Benjamin Hojem and Rhiannon Scharnhorst Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description From Aristotle’s correctness to Quintilian’s purity to Campbell’s nationality, rhetorical instruction in the formal qualities of writing has long emphasized stylistic “virtues” that serve to exclude language variants and their speakers. With this history in mind, how should we understand the capabilities and affordances

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