Activities

Reflective Writing About Podcasts for Critical Language Awareness

Activities, CLA, identity, language bias, linguistic diversity, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Madeline Crozier Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity helps students develop writing and listening skills through an exploration of how identity, language, and writing are connected. By including one or more podcast episodes as supplemental course content and then inviting students to reflect on and discuss the episodes, the activity brings multiple languages, […]

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Cultivating Metacognitive Growth: Teacher-student Rubric Co-construction for Enhanced College Writing Instruction

Activities, collaboration and group work, Grading, metacognition /

Tong Zhang Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Rubrics, often perceived as scoring devices, are pivotal in assessing students’ writing proficiency. Effectively utilizing rubrics can improve grading efficiency and consistency, guiding students in reflecting on their learning and comprehending the teacher’s feedback. Although rubrics are commonly used in writing classrooms, students may find them unclear

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Reflective Agency: Journaling to Locate a Writing Identity

Activities, identity, prewriting and invention, reflection /

Meredith McKinnie and Tabitha McBride Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description In the first-year writing classroom, often populated by a growing number of first-generation college students, the student’s expectation is to respond to assignment prompts as knee-jerk reactions to instructor-curated assignments. While these assignments foster development of the writing process, students can engage these assignments

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Large Language Models and Chain Stories: An Exploration of Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Activities, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, narrative and storytelling, writing technologies /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This lesson develops students’ awareness of the synergistic and disruptive potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in storytelling. Designed for a first-year writing class, the lesson explores the interplay between creativity and AI by examining LLMs’ storytelling capabilities. Students will collaboratively create a chain story, then use

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Gen AI: Large Language Models and Linguistic Whitewashing

Activities, genAI, language bias, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, writing technologies /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This multi-step lesson engages students in the critical analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and its impact on linguistic diversity. Through assigned readings, writing tasks, and in-class activities, students will explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can reinforce linguistic hierarchies and biases. Even older LLMs, like

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Reflective Artist’s Statement for Multimodal Assignments

Activities, digital literacy, metacognition, narrative and storytelling, reflection, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Benjamin Djain & Angela Geosits Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The challenge of providing a multimodal assignment to students is encouraging creativity and experimentation with tools that are unfamiliar while, at the same time, ensuring that their work can be marked to a standard. Having students craft a substantive artist’s statement fulfills this dual

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Deep Digital Reading with Google Docs

Activities, collaboration and group work, digital literacy, reading, reading strategies /

Ashley R. Ott Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description “Books and screens are now bound up with one another whether we like it or not. Only in patiently working through this entanglement will we be able to understand how new technologies will, or will not, change how we read” (Piper ix). Digital reading offers new

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Write-a-thons and Community Panels: Encouraging Students to “Go Public” with Their Writing

Activities, Community-engaged writing, Public Writing, rhetoric /

Megan Heise Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description First-year writing classes (can) provide a fertile ground for student exploration of meaningful topics that impact them and their broader communities both within and beyond the Ivory Tower. Research-based writing courses, in particular, can open up spaces for students to dive deep into areas that are important

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Towards Self-assessing Writing beyond Writing Center Consultations

Activities, critical thought and analysis, drafting and revising, Feedback, metacognition, reflection, writing center and other resources /

Saurabh Anand Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity sheet’s idea and its relevance in the writing center consultation mushroomed from my English composition teaching days to my (multilingual) students. In between drafts, I often invited my students to reflect on the writing they produced to intentionally let them self-access to intentionally let them

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