rhetorical situation

Exploring Grammar in Food Reviews: A Critical Language Awareness Approach

Activities, Critical Language Awareness, genre and discourse community, grammar and mechanics, linguistic diversity, rhetorical situation, Style, translingualism, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Lyn Westergard and Chloe de los Reyes Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity uses food reviews as an entry point for teaching grammatical awareness, specifically adjective strings and intensifiers, within a multilingual undergraduate writing course. Grounded in critical language awareness, the activity positions grammar as a rhetorical resource rather than a set of […]

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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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Framing Bad News: Hedging, Voice, and HR Memos

Activities, collaboration and group work, Critical Language Awareness, drafting and revising, genre and discourse community, grammar and mechanics, peer review, professional writing, reflection, rhetorical situation, technical writing /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This two-class sequence, which is an ideal fit for professional writing or business communication courses, helps students see how grammatical and lexical choices shape the ethical and practical work of workplace communication. The project culminates in students drafting a one-page memo delivering bad news through announcing policy

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Teaching Critical AI Literacy through Popular Natural Science Articles

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, information literacy, Integrating sources, Process, research, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, writing across the curriculum, writing technologies /

Chad Lewis and Jackson W. Martin Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The writing classroom is an opportune space to teach students how to critically think about generative AI (GenAI) outputs and their limitations. This assignment asks students to compare the rhetorical situations of scholarly research articles in the natural sciences with their popular science

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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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Can ChatGPT Make the Right Moves? A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Human-Authored and AI-Generated Texts

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, Process, rhetorical situation, writing technologies /

Michelle Cook, Gaby Meindl, and Angela Laflen Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Helping students develop rhetorical knowledge acts as a bridge between understanding GenAI tools on a functional level and being a critical reader of texts generated by AI. Because we are preparing students to enter academic and professional spaces that have been, and

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Convincing the Machine: Using Rhetoric to Get the Most Out of AI Writing Assistants in Proposal Writing

Assignments, digital literacy, genAI, identity, information literacy, professional writing, rhetorical situation, writing technologies /

Ronald B. Cole, Lauren N. Maher, and Rich Rice Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment teaches students to treat generative AI as a rhetorical collaborator that must be convinced through recursive prompting, strategic data curation, and continuous adjustment. Students assume the role of grant writers advocating for a project, community, or initiative of

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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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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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