Textual Telephone
Help your students think about paraphrasing differently by putting a new spin on a familiar game.
Help your students think about paraphrasing differently by putting a new spin on a familiar game.
Use this musical marble machine video to help your students grasp the idea of the rhetorical situation.
So, you’ve explained how to write a thesis statement and given guidelines on good paragraphs. Now how do you help your students visualize that? Use the oft-cited worst ever film, Troll 2, to guide you!
This in-class assignment asks students to revise the plot of a film into emoji code. Emphasis can be placed on revision practices, multimodal texts, the variety of Englishes available to rhetors depending on their cultures and contexts, or all three simultaneously.
This exercise demonstrates, step by step, how freshmen can use the “They Say / I Say” format to write compelling, college-level essays.
To help students understand the difference between a popular, generalized media source and an academic/original source, I presented students with 3 different forms of the same myth of Pandora. By discussing each of the sources, all of them leading to a collective and informational Ted Talk on the myth, students were able to come to the conclusion of why the audience is important to writing and how expertise affects the way information is delivered.
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