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Antagonizing & Tailoring LLM Writing in a Mock Public Relations Crisis Management Campaign for Business Communication Classes

Activities, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, observation, Process, professional writing, rhetorical situation, writing myths and anxiety, writing technologies /

Amanda Rioux Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This Business Communication in-class activity uses a sample case study in which an imaginary company had a public fallout, with the purpose of students developing and refining the skills needed to regain trust and goodwill amongst the company’s various stakeholders—both internally within the company itself, and externally […]

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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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Acting Bias: Staging Media Analysis in First-Year Writing

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, information literacy, news, observation, reading strategies, research, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, secondary source research, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Freddie (Fiona) Harris Ramsby Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In first-year writing classrooms, embodied teaching methods, such as Kathryn Dawson and Bridget Kiger Lee’s drama-based pedagogy (DBP), “[provide] an innovative means to stimulate students’ creativity…to foster learning that sticks, cultivating brains that retain information” (Harris Ramsby 1). Combining Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B.

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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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