prewriting and invention

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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Learning to Listen for Immersion and Rhetorical Choices

Activities, digital literacy, prewriting and invention, soundwriting, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Tanya K. Rodrigue and Kyle D. Stedman Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Soundwriting assignments—those that ask students in writing and rhetoric classes to compose rhetorical digital audio projects—are becoming more commonplace in the college classroom (e.g. Alexander; Friend; Faris, Danforth, and Stedman). One of the ways students learn how to compose effective soundwriting is

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Source Speed Dating: Where Do Research Topics Come From?

Activities, demystifying writing assignments, prewriting and invention, primary source research, research /

Hannah T. Davis Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The beginning of a research paper assignment might involve a discussion of the goals of the assignment and a short brainstorming activity to help students think about possible topics. When students are asked to quickly choose a topic in this manner, without first conducting preliminary research,

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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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Technical, Scientific, and Business Presentations: Strategies for Success

drafting and revising, prewriting and invention, professional writing, technical writing, Volume 6 /

Darina M. Slattery Volume 6 Chapter Description This chapter outlines the key phases of presentation development and delivery, and how best to go about them, with reference to theory and practice from the disciplines of technical communication and information design. While the purpose of this chapter is to prepare students for workplace presentations, some of the examples will

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Developing Fruitful Research Questions

demystifying writing assignments, prewriting and invention, research, secondary source research /

Emily Spitler-Lawson Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description When I was a younger, less experienced writing instructor, I told a classroom full of first year composition students, “Write about whatever you want!” when introducing a major research-based assignment. As you can probably imagine, I very quickly learned that some student-generated topics and questions were more

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Getting Burned or Becoming Toast?: Problem-Exploring the Game “I Am Bread” as a Tool for Teaching Growth Mindset in First Year Writing

Activities, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, prewriting and invention, Process, reading, reading to write, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Laura E. Decker Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description First-year writers often struggle to take risks on projects, especially as they move from their composition courses to projects within new disciplines and contexts (Robertson et al.). However, taking risks by diving into new discourse communities, as Bartholomae argued, is required to participate effectively in the

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Our Sonically-Composed Worlds

Activities, Community-engaged writing, critical thought and analysis, prewriting and invention, rhetoric, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Matt Hill Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The activity is meant to encourage thinking about sonic pollution in our world and about the rhetorical nature of such pollution. It could also move into other sonic topics: effects of noise on hospital care, effects of anthropogenic noise on the natural world, how military sonic technologies

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Personal and Cultural Identity Through Food: A Multimodal Cultural Cookbook

Assignments, collaboration and group work, cultural awareness, identity, prewriting and invention, Racial Literacy, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Andrea Janelle Dickens Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The first year of college offers ample opportunities for students to think about identity. Students are in a new school, and sometimes in a new city or country. They are meeting new people. This gives them the chance to think about who they are, and the

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“I Didn’t Know I Could Research That”: Using Objects for Research Topic Invention

Activities, Community-engaged writing, Place-based Writing, prewriting and invention, research /

Mario A. D’Agostino Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Objects matter. As material rhetoricians (Barnett & Boyle; Gries & Brooke), cultural materialists (Bennett), and compositionists (Rule) have recently noted, objects play an important role in our lives and composing processes. An excellent example of the cultural significance of objects and what they mean to their

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