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Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t

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Ann N. Amicucci Volume 4 Chapter Description Many students are frequent users of social media, and it’s important to recognize the rich rhetorical activity that happens on apps like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. This chapter teaches students how to take rhetorical moves they make on social media and mimic these moves in academic writing, […]

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The Evolution of Imitation: Building Your Style

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Craig A. Meyer Volume 3 Chapter Description This chapter focuses on incorporating imitation practices into a student’s writing toolbox. By encouraging students to look more rhetorically at writing through imitation, they learn to recognize that language is more dynamic, and they can approach writing tasks with more contemplative thought instead of as a dreaded task.

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Composing the Anthology: An Exercise in Patchwriting

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Christopher Leary Volume 1 Chapter Description A composition teacher shares stories – from inside and outside of the classroom – concerning the dangers and possibilities inherent in “patchwriting.” The article presents examples of patchwriting drawn from poems, anthologies, and prose and argues that it is a useful but underappreciated writing strategy. Alternate Downloads:  You may

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Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?

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Sandra Giles Volume 1 Chapter Description This essay explains to students that reflective writing involves their thinking about their own thinking. They may be asked to reflect about their audience and purpose for a piece of writing. They may write about their invention, drafting, revision, and editing processes. They may self-assess or evaluate their writing,

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From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing

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Beth L. Hewett Volume 1 Chapter Description Students need to learn how to revise their writing based on readers’ feedback, but they rarely know how to make such decisions. This chapter teaches students how to make decisions about essay development and revision by modeling and explaining a writing teacher’s decision-making process. Every semester, I ask

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Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students

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E. Shelley Reid Volume 2 Chapter Description Writing is hard. It’s harder if your students think of it as a collection of arbitrary rules than if they think of it as a human communication process they already understand a lot about. Using comparisons to familiar events (doing laundry, making fruit Jell-O, writing thank-you notes, and

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