identity

Shaping Multilingual Identity: Translanguaging Practices Through Digital Storytelling Workshop

Activities, digital literacy, identity, narrative and storytelling, social media, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Alexandra Krasova Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This workshop was initially designed for undergraduate multilingual students participating in my dissertation study. My participants had some background experience in creating digital stories for social media, such as TikTok or Instagram. However, digital storytelling with integrated translanguaging practices for academic purposes was a new and unique […]

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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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Communication Guide Assignment

Assignments, CLA, Critical Language Awareness, cultural awareness, identity, linguistic diversity /

Alexandria Hanson Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description First-year students often enter introductory writing courses with a wide range of language experiences and backgrounds. To develop critical language awareness, as Shawna Shapiro writes, it is important to help students “recognize the variation within their own linguistic repertoir—no matter how many languages or language varieties they

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Map-Making and Storytelling

Activities, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, critical thought and analysis, cultural awareness, identity, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, Place-based Writing, prewriting and invention, Translation, translingualism, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Gitte Frandsen Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Transnational, multilingual students have extensive experiences negotiating language difference by translating, translanguaging, and drawing from their literacy and rhetorical resources (Canagarajah). Further, by traversing physical and digital borders, these students habitually engage in the transnational flow of ideas and information, which gives them access to a wealth

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Intersectional Identity Photo Essay

Critical Language Awareness, critical thought and analysis, cultural awareness, demystifying writing assignments, digital literacy, identity, linguistic difference, narrative and storytelling, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Jackie Mohan Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In this assignment, students craft a photo essay about their identity, through which they hone basic writing skills, understand genre, and develop an understanding of voice, tone, and style. Intersectionality refers to how we can better understand each person’s lived experiences in the world by examining how

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Building Inclusive Classrooms: Equipping Educators with an Introductory Social Justice Lesson Plan

Activities, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Critical Language Awareness, critical thought and analysis, cultural awareness, identity, language bias, linguistic difference /

Bethany Meadows and Kimberly Groves Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Many scholars have called for the necessity of social justice frameworks within K-16 classrooms for decades (e.g., Friere; hooks; Walton et al.; Muhammad). Specifically, in the first-year writing classroom, we know that neither writing nor our writing classrooms are neutral, apolitical spaces, but instead

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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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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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Reflecting on Literacy Identities Through Writing Personal Narratives

cultural awareness, identity, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, narrative and storytelling, Volume 7, writing in global contexts /

Ruth Li Volume 7 Chapter Description In this chapter, I offer an approach to teaching literacy narratives, which encourage students to reflect critically on their diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. I interweave examples from literacy narratives written by three of my first-year writing students in Saudi Arabia. By examining the ways students’ stories reverberate across

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Beyond Audience Analysis: Three Stages of User Experience Research for Technical Writers

Accessibility, digital literacy, identity, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, professional writing, technical writing, Volume 6, writing technologies /

Joanna Schreiber Volume 6 Chapter Description UX research is central to technical writing work. The three phases of user experience (UX) research—background, primary, and usability testing—presented in this chapter are intended to help you see research as both a fundamental and ongoing part of technical writing. This chapter provides a foundation for building your knowledge

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