Activities

Learning to Incorporate Source Material with a Full Menu of Options: Developing a Discrete Skill in Isolation

Activities, documentation, genre and discourse community, Integrating sources, primary source research, Process, quotations, citations, and style, research, secondary source research /

Stephen David Grover Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Writing assignments often require students to perform a complex array of interrelated tasks all at once. For example, when composing a typical researched argument essay, students must keep their eyes on higher-order concerns like thesis, organization, and finding and evaluating evidence, while at the same time […]

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Collaborative Building of a Course AI Policy

Activities, collaboration and group work, genAI /

Benjamin Goodwin Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity, designed for the first day or week of a first-year composition course, aims to address several key beginning-of-the-term concerns: breaking the ice and building community, giving students a sense of agency and ownership of the learning space, and addressing the complex issues and impacts of

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Fuzzy Logic: How the Fuzzy Definition of Plagiarism is Getting Even Fuzzier

Activities, documentation, Integrating sources, plagiarism, primary source research, Process, quotations, citations, and style, secondary source research /

Steven Engel and Staci Shultz Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Rachel Hall Buck and Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore’s Writing Spaces essay, “‘Doing Research Is Fun; Citing Sources Is Not’: Understanding the Fuzzy Definition of Plagiarism,” suggests ways to help students unpack the complexity of plagiarism. Our activity extends these essential conversations by examining several recent highprofile

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Map-Making and Storytelling

Activities, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, critical thought and analysis, cultural awareness, identity, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, Place-based Writing, prewriting and invention, Translation, translingualism, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Gitte Frandsen Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Transnational, multilingual students have extensive experiences negotiating language difference by translating, translanguaging, and drawing from their literacy and rhetorical resources (Canagarajah). Further, by traversing physical and digital borders, these students habitually engage in the transnational flow of ideas and information, which gives them access to a wealth

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Building Inclusive Classrooms: Equipping Educators with an Introductory Social Justice Lesson Plan

Activities, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Critical Language Awareness, critical thought and analysis, cultural awareness, identity, language bias, linguistic difference /

Bethany Meadows and Kimberly Groves Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Many scholars have called for the necessity of social justice frameworks within K-16 classrooms for decades (e.g., Friere; hooks; Walton et al.; Muhammad). Specifically, in the first-year writing classroom, we know that neither writing nor our writing classrooms are neutral, apolitical spaces, but instead

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Collaborative Problem-Solving: Deliberative Discourse toward Group Consensus

Activities, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, research, rhetoric, rhetorical situation /

Sarah Moon Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity is inspired by work done at the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse Faculty Seminar and the National Issues Forum approach to deliberative discourse. The activity goal is to provide opportunities to channel research and rhetorical education toward live, extemporaneous speech, not in a debate format

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“So What?” Speed Dating: Articulating an Argument’s Significance

Activities, critical thought and analysis, drafting and revising, Feedback, reflection, rhetorical appeals and argument /

Shannon Mooney Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity is intended to help students practice articulating the larger stakes, or the “so what,” of an argumentative or analytical assignment. The activity works best after students have developed complete drafts, and it can be easily adapted for any paper that requires students to present and

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Literary Analysis via Songs

Activities, critical thought and analysis, reading, reading strategies, reading to write /

Sean Oros Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The purpose of this lesson is to provide students a pathway for applying literary analysis skills to modern songs of their own choosing. The rationale for this is twofold: first, it is partially a response to avoiding copied responses from Spark Notes or Lit Notes and the

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Rhetorical Moves Analysis of Emails

Activities, genre and discourse community, reflection, rhetoric, rhetorical situation /

Lisa Parzefall Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to rhetorical moves analysis as a way to approach and respond to a variety of genres as well as better understand rhetorical concepts such as audience and purpose. To do so, students begin by reviewing an example analysis

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Learning to Listen for Immersion and Rhetorical Choices

Activities, digital literacy, prewriting and invention, soundwriting, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Tanya K. Rodrigue and Kyle D. Stedman Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Soundwriting assignments—those that ask students in writing and rhetoric classes to compose rhetorical digital audio projects—are becoming more commonplace in the college classroom (e.g. Alexander; Friend; Faris, Danforth, and Stedman). One of the ways students learn how to compose effective soundwriting is

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