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Teaching Genre with Adaptation

by angelenapierce | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized

In this activity, students reflect on the concept of genre through a fun activity!

The Rhetorical Marble Machine

by Dana Blair | Aug 22, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

Use this musical marble machine video to help your students grasp the idea of the rhetorical situation.

Emoji Lesson Plan for MultiModal Revision

by R. Morgan | Apr 1, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips, Uncategorized

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.

Questions on Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”

by Dana Blair | Mar 28, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

I used the questions in this activity as a way of having students read in class Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.” It was very helpful in getting students engaged with the reading while formulating the anwers to these questions, which I asked at the end of the activity to corroborate that they’d done it.

Lesson Plan to Help Students Understand Grant Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and their Constituents”

by Dana Blair | Mar 28, 2019 | Composition Concepts, Quick Tips

This lesson plan allows for students to think of the rhetorical situation as a compilation of individual sections through group work and stations around the room.

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