genre and discourse community

Getting in Conversation about Activism: Group Podcast Assignment

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, collaboration and group work, Community-engaged writing, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, narrative and storytelling, Place-based Writing, Public Writing, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Jeanette Lehn Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In my class on public rhetorics, I strive to empower students to possess agency in speaking to an unbounded global public with the understanding that all rhetors are constrained and imbricated in complex systems. Cooper writes, “Rhetors—and audiences—are agents in their actions, and they are responsible for […]

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Unpacking Abstracts: Conventions of Empirical Abstracts in Social Science Papers

Activities, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, primary source research, reading strategies, research, secondary source research, STEM, Style, writing across the curriculum /

Faqryza Ab Latif Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The goal of the activity is for learners to be able to describe the components that make up the abstract of an empirical social science paper and apply them to other abstracts in the field. This goal is connected to introducing students to the conventions of

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What Can I Add to the Disourse Community? How Writers Use Code Meshing and Translanguaging to Negotiate Discourse

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, genre and discourse community, Volume 5 /

Lisa Tremain Volume 5 Chapter Description This essay explores how discourse communities change over time and through participation, and it shows how we can negotiate the expectations for discourse through translanguaging and code-meshing. As discourse community members learn and practice the language rules of a community, they also act as agents to develop, change, or

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Object Ethnography for the Real-World: Using Objects and Documents for Disciplinary Development

Assignments, Community-engaged writing, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, primary source research, reflection, research, rhetoric /

Meng-Hsien (Neal) Liu Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description As Writing Studies has sought to address multimodal and embodied composition, one area has focused on how objects mediate writing processes and identity formations (Shipka). This assignment represents a final term project for an advanced composition class with the overall objective of complicating students’ thinking regarding

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Emotionally Aware Ethnography

Assignments, Community-engaged writing, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, narrative and storytelling, Place-based Writing, primary source research /

Sarah Bramblett Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description I’ve encountered several jarring writing submissions: an essay describing a student’s family member’s tragic death, an essay detailing a student’s battle with an eating disorder, an essay telling of a student’s loneliness in their first semester of college, and an essay recounting a student’s suicidal thoughts. These

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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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Writing Science in the First Year of College: Why It Matters to STEM Students and How STEM Students Benefit from It

genre and discourse community, Racial Literacy, STEM, Volume 5, writing across the curriculum /

Chris Thaiss and Stephanie Wade Volume 5 Chapter Description This essay aims to help students who have interests in STEM fields make the most of their first year by showing them how to find opportunities to explore STEM topics in typical first-year writing classes, as well as in the STEM courses they will take, and

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You Are Good for Wikipedia

genre and discourse community, professional writing, Public Writing, secondary source research, Volume 5, Wikipedia, writing technologies /

Matthew A. Vetter and Oksana Moroz Volume 5 Chapter Description In a previous Writing Spaces essay entitled, Wikipedia Is Good for You!?, James P. Purdy introduces us to the idea that the online encyclopedia, often devalued in educational spaces, can serve as a starting place for research and a process guide to research-based writing. By

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What Is Rhetoric? A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Primer

genre and discourse community, rhetoric, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, Volume 5 /

William Duffy Volume 5 Chapter Description Providing an introduction to rhetoric is a foundational component of most first-year writing courses.1 Discussion of rhetorical appeals, for example, is standard fair in these contexts, as are activities that ask students to develop an appreciation for rhetorical situations, audiences, purposes, and even more nuanced concepts such as kairos

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The Importance of Transfer in Your First Year Writing Course

critical thought and analysis, demystifying writing assignments, genre and discourse community, rhetorical situation, volume 4, Writing Transfer /

Kara Taczak Volume 4 Chapter Description This essay explores the importance of transfer in first year writing. Transfer is the ability to take writing knowledge and practices from one context and use it to repurpose or reframe it in a new/different writing context. To help students better understand how to effectively transfer, this essay examines

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