narrative

The Twine Project: Engaging Metacognition and Remediation with Digital Narrative

Assignments, collaboration and group work, digital literacy, metacognition, narrative and storytelling, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Brian Ernst Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The Twine Project invites students to reconceptualize a previously written paper, ideally a personal narrative or argumentative essay, into a non-linear experience that can easily be shared or published on the internet as a single hypertext markup language (html) file without prior coding knowledge. Twine, an open-source […]

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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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Weaving Personal Experience into Academic Writing

narrative and storytelling, Volume 3 /

Marjorie Stewart Volume 3 Chapter Description “Weaving Personal Experience into Academic Writing” uses the metaphor of weaving to demonstrate one way of using personal and narrative writing within academic essays. Rather than debate whether narrative is appropriate for academic writing, it addresses the question of when is it appropriate and how it can be done

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Storytelling, Narration, and the “Who I Am” Story

demystifying writing assignments, narrative and storytelling, Volume 2 /

Catherine Ramsdell Volume 2 Chapter Description This chapter focuses on the importance of storytelling to successful personal and professional communication in the 21st century. Because narration transcends experience, and because stories “can be found anywhere from a movie theatre to a corporate boardroom, everyone should know how to tell a good story.”  While the chapter

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