Better discussions using socratic seminar
Do you ever have trouble keeping conversations about readings going, especially when your class seems to be made up of shy students?
Textual Telephone
Help your students think about paraphrasing differently by putting a new spin on a familiar game.
The Rhetorical Marble Machine
Use this musical marble machine video to help your students grasp the idea of the rhetorical situation.
New TA Q&A
Read on to hear advice and tales of both triumph and tragedy from fellow TAs who have been where you are and lived to tell the tale.
εύρηκα!: How I Utilized Classical Myth to Help Explain Audience: Lesson Plan
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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