rhetorical situation

Experimenting with Style: Cyborg Voices

Activities, genAI, grammar and mechanics, Process, rhetorical situation, Style /

Benjamin Hojem and Rhiannon Scharnhorst Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description From Aristotle’s correctness to Quintilian’s purity to Campbell’s nationality, rhetorical instruction in the formal qualities of writing has long emphasized stylistic “virtues” that serve to exclude language variants and their speakers. With this history in mind, how should we understand the capabilities and affordances […]

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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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Collaborative Problem-Solving: Deliberative Discourse toward Group Consensus

Activities, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, research, rhetoric, rhetorical situation /

Sarah Moon Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity is inspired by work done at the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse Faculty Seminar and the National Issues Forum approach to deliberative discourse. The activity goal is to provide opportunities to channel research and rhetorical education toward live, extemporaneous speech, not in a debate format

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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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Outside the Frame: An Image Analysis

digital literacy, rhetoric, rhetorical situation, secondary source research, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Stephen Paur Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment invites students to critically analyze the rhetorical and emotional effects of images. The project is basically an exercise in contextualizing a news photo. It would work well as the culminating assignment for a unit on visual rhetoric, digital literacy, multimodality, mass media, or the public

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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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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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Writing Counterstories: Ways to Challenge Dominant Narratives in FYC

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, cultural awareness, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, Racial Literacy, rhetoric, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, Volume 7 /

Sana Sayed Volume 7 Chapter Description This chapter draws from Aja Martinez’s concept of counterstories as a rhetorical research methodology in rhetoric and writing studies and encourages you, a first year writing student, to draw upon your experiential knowledge to both challenge and reframe master narratives that are accepted by the majority. In first-year composition

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Engaging Audiences Beyond the University: Writing in and Reflecting on Non-Academic Rhetorical Situations

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, drafting and revising, Public Writing, research, rhetoric, rhetorical situation, secondary source research /

Rebecca Chenoweth Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment invites students to identify academic knowledge that they value, and to share this knowledge with a new audience that is impacted by and/or can impact the topic. They are then tasked with analyzing their own writing in this “non-academic” rhetorical situation. Both components of this

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How Writing Happens

drafting and revising, prewriting and invention, Process, rhetorical situation, Volume 5 /

Zack DePiero and Ryan Dippre Volume 5 Chapter Description The writing process is often oversimplified as a series of linear steps: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. While this notion enables students, like you, to conceptualize writing as something that improves over time, it also conceals the chaos of writing and its social, emotional, and

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