Assignments

Using Recipe Archives for Place-Based Research and Writing

Archival Research, Assignments, Place-based Writing /

Ashley M. Beardsley Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Cookbooks “allude to meals and events, people and places, success and failures, joys and sorrows, lives and deaths” representing “the life worlds—past and present—of their creators” (Theophano 83). Through archival research, students explore how cookbooks and recipes are more than instructions that teach people how to […]

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Literacy Autobiography

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, critical thought and analysis, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, narrative and storytelling, Racial Literacy, translingualism /

Anita Chaudhuri & Subrata Bhowmik Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Writing a personal narrative assignment is commonplace in first year composition classrooms and the proposed assignment presents it as a literacy autobiography (LA) which can, according to Canagarajah, focus on individual learning journeys and underline “in-between identities and discourses” (p. 13). The transnational identities

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Non-standardized Grammar Assignment

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, critical thought and analysis, grammar and mechanics, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, narrative and storytelling, prewriting and invention, Racial Literacy /

Cheyenne Franklin Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description “… dont nobody’s language, dialect, or style make them ‘vulnerable to prejudice.’ It’s ATTITUDES” (Young 110). Vershawn Ashanti Young, along with Asao Inoue, Geneva Smitherman, and more recently April Baker-Bell, have long fought against oppressive language standards in education. It is not enough, they have jointly argued,

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Avoiding the Savior Complex in Community-Engaged Writing

Assignments, Community-engaged writing, genre and discourse community, Place-based Writing, rhetorical situation /

Charisse S. Iglesias Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description “Avoiding the Savior Complex in Community-Engaged Writing” is a three-day activity to prepare students for community-engaged writing partnerships. Community-engaged writing is a common undertaking in composition courses (Schutz and Gere). While community-engaged writing encourages civic responsibility, exposure to different communities, and engaged pedagogies, the practice does

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Multimodal Proposal

Assignments, rhetorical situation, visual/multimodal rhetorics, writing technologies /

Charles McGregor Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment is intended to be used as a proposal for a big multimodal composition project. The goal of this assignment is to help students articulate their topic, think through their intended audience and where they exist, and practice composing through a non-linguistic mode of communication they

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How to Write a _____ Like a _____

Accessibility, Assignments, drafting and revising, rhetoric, visual/multimodal rhetorics, writing technologies /

Keri Epps Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description As a writing instructor dedicated to researching and teaching rhetorical genres, I often struggle with how to facilitate students’ learning of what makes a genre, how it circulates, and who it matters to. In short, designing scaffolded assignments around “genre” has seemed difficult in writing courses at

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“Lend Ears!”: Creating Audio Recordings of Final Drafts to Develop Rhetorical Awareness

Accessibility, Assignments, drafting and revising, rhetoric, visual/multimodal rhetorics, writing technologies /

Heather Shearer Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Many composition instructors ask students to read drafts aloud during writing workshops because doing so helps writers identify logical gaps, stylistic mishaps, or localized errors they overlook when reading drafts silently. To amplify the writerly knowledge gained from reading drafts aloud, we can extend the read-aloud practice

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Rhetorical Analysis: Creating an App Casebook 

Assignments, collaboration and group work, rhetoric, rhetorical appeals and argument, writing technologies /

Melvin E. Beavers Volume 5 Assignment Description The purpose of this assignment is to use rhetoric to think and write critically about technology and the users’ experiences with it. To do so, students will work collaboratively to determine what makes a smartphone app successful. Once they agree, each student is bound by the criteria they

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