genre and discourse community

AI and Language: Facilitating Emergent Participation in New Discourse Communities

Assignments, cultural awareness, digital literacy, genAI, genre and discourse community, identity, information literacy, language bias /

Kelsey Hawkins Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Since the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, instructors and scholars have grappled with the ways that AI technologies are transforming writing practices. In a world that increasingly relies on Generative AI (GenAI) technologies like text generators to produce content for public and professional contexts, […]

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Learning to Incorporate Source Material with a Full Menu of Options: Developing a Discrete Skill in Isolation

Activities, documentation, genre and discourse community, Integrating sources, primary source research, Process, quotations, citations, and style, research, secondary source research /

Stephen David Grover Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Writing assignments often require students to perform a complex array of interrelated tasks all at once. For example, when composing a typical researched argument essay, students must keep their eyes on higher-order concerns like thesis, organization, and finding and evaluating evidence, while at the same time

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Cultural Analysis Podcast

genre and discourse community, rhetoric, rhetorical situation, soundwriting, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Jackie Mohan Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In this major assignment, students conduct a rhetorical analysis of one text (an advertisement, speech, essay, article, book, film, album or song, social media post, etc.) of their choice from within the last ten years. “Text” here is defined as an instance of communication, with a speaker,

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Rhetorical Moves Analysis of Emails

Activities, genre and discourse community, reflection, rhetoric, rhetorical situation /

Lisa Parzefall Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to rhetorical moves analysis as a way to approach and respond to a variety of genres as well as better understand rhetorical concepts such as audience and purpose. To do so, students begin by reviewing an example analysis

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Genre Analysis of Project Proposals

Community-engaged writing, demystifying writing assignments, genre and discourse community, Place-based Writing, problem-solving proposal, research, rhetoric, rhetorical situation, Writing Transfer /

Sarah Swofford Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The purpose of this assignment is to help students develop a process for learning unfamiliar genres successfully. This assignment is the first part of a two-assignment sequence (the second part is “A Proposal for Change on Campus,” also found in Writing Spaces’ Assignment and Activities Archive) in

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Proposal for Change on Campus

Assignments, collaboration and group work, Community-engaged writing, genre and discourse community, Place-based Writing, problem-solving proposal, professional writing /

Sarah Swofford Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The purpose of this assignment is three-fold: 1) it helps students execute prior knowledge about genre so they are able to effectively compose unfamiliar genres of writing; 2) shows students how their writing skills are useful in professional and not only academic contexts; and 3) teaches students

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Writing, Translating, and Revising Menus: An International Virtual Exchange Project

Community-engaged writing, Critical Language Awareness, genre and discourse community, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, professional writing, Translation, translingualism, writing in global contexts, writing technologies /

Massimo Verzella Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment is informed by a pedagogical tradition that emphasizes the connections between the fields of writing and translation (Matsuda; Horner and Tetreault), a connection that becomes even more relevant in technical communication (Gnecchi et al.; Petts et al.). Just like writing, translation is process-based, iterative, and

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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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The Zine Project: Reorienting Concepts of Composition through Multimodal Reflection

Assignments, genre and discourse community, reflection, rhetorical situation, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Tania de Sostoa-McCue Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment is intended to be a transition, preparing students for practice in moving from alphabetic to multimodal projects. The goal of this assignment is for students to take a familiar genre (in this case, post-project reflections) and practice how they might transform an alphabetic assignment

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Discourse Communities Manual Presentation

Assignments, Community-engaged writing, genre and discourse community, Place-based Writing, research, writing technologies /

Andrew H. Yim Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In this activity, which will take around 3-4 weeks, students are tasked to research one discourse community (e.g., college club, job, volunteer organization) that they have never joined or recently became a member of. They need to pick out the 6 elements of the organization including:

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