genre and discourse community

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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Critical AI Literacy as a Tool for Building Writing Skills

Activities, critical thought and analysis, demystifying writing assignments, genAI, genre and discourse community, metacognition, rhetorical appeals and argument, writing across the curriculum, writing technologies /

Kerri Rinaldi Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This structured classroom activity offers an agency-centered approach to teaching critical AI literacy in the writing classroom through a feminist methodology lens. Rather than approaching AI literacy as training students how to use generative AI tools, the activity positions students as rhetorical judges and critical witnesses, aligning

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Documenting Campus Spaces: The Collaborative Accessibility Guide Assignment

Accessibility, Assignments, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, professional writing, technical writing, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Marie Pruitt Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The Collaborative Accessibility Guide (CAG) assignment was originally designed for an upper-level writing course, Technical and Scientific Writing, taught at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) and large public research university. However, this assignment can easily be adapted for any technical or professional writing course. Over the course

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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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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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“Getting a Peek Behind the Wizard’s Curtain”: Teaching Students How to Read Academic Articles with Haas’ ‘Learning to Read Biology’

Activities, demystifying writing assignments, genre and discourse community, reading strategies, rhetoric /

Kevin E. DePew Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description As instructors across the disciplines know, most incoming college students struggle to read academic texts. While there is an array of reasons that students might not be reading their assigned texts—from limited time to neurodivergent challenges to failure to see the assigned reading’s relevance—this series of

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