Teaching Resources: Context

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Context

Adding to a Conversation - Assignment
Adding to a Conversation - Enacting Choices
All the World Is a Text

Analyzing Analysis
Analyzing Texts Through a Cultural Lens
Asking Questions to Further a Conversation
Audience Textual AnalysisBlowing Things Into Proportion

Blowing Things Into Proportion - Generative Writing Prompts
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Note Card Exercise
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Other Activities

Calendar and Music Activity
Can Online Discussion Write/Right Itself?
Cinderella Story
Citing, Grammar, Proofreading, and Citation Work
Civic Writing
Class Discussion Suggestions
Classroom Courtesy and Ethics
Collaborative Writing for Multiple Audiences
Composing In Eprime
Constructing a Reading
Contexts That Make Me - Assignment
Contexts That Make Me - Revision Exercise
Contexts That Make Me - Famous Pairs Activity
Contexts That Make Me - Generative Writing Activities

Contexts That Makes Me -- Soundscape
Course Planning
Crisis and Response a WritingProgram's Self Exam
Critiquing Film

Descriptive Writing with Found.Com

Differentiating Between Objective and Subjective Ways of Seeing

Exploring a Sample Conversation

Favorite Meal Exercise
Fun With Tabloids

Generative Writing Activities - Blowing Things Into Proportion
Generative Writing Activities - Contexts That Make Me
Generative Writing Activities - My Self In Words
Generative Writing Activities - Self As Writer
Generative Writing Activities - Self In Contradiction
Guidelines for Creating a Classroom Community
Guidelines For Creating a Safe Environment

Incorporating a Text Into Your Essay
Inquiring Into Self - Making Meaning From Scratch
Interacting With Texts - Essay Mapping
Interview Exercise

"Interviewing" the Author
In the Head of the Ad Makers       

Journal Prompt Dice Game

Leading with the Blank
Legos Exercise for Sentence Structure
Linking with Yarn

Making a Hypertext (Without a Computer!)
Moving Toward Reflection
Music Appreciation - Englwrit 112 Bandstand
My Self In Words - Assignment
My Self In Words - Generative Writing Activities
My Self In Words - Publication Activities

New Experiences

On This Person's Walls

Peer Response Techniques - Sequencing Prompts
Peer Response Workshop
Peer Review for Adding to the Conversation
Photo Essay
Places Exercise
Postcard Exercise
Print Text Collage

Quoting, Citing, and Student Writing

Reflective Writing
Reflective Writing as Free Writing
Reigning In the Conversation
Research Update and Annotated Bibliography
Responding to the Class Magazine
Rhetorical Prospectus

Self As Writer - Assignment
Self as Writer - Generative Writing Activities
Self As Writer - Publication Activity
Self In Contradiction - Generative Writing Activities
Self In Contradiction - Sample Assignment Sheet
Short Long Short
Show and Tell
Some Approaches to Peer Response
Some Text Wrestling Ideas - Magazine Creation

Take Out Your Pencils
Telephone Game - Englwrit 112 Style
Traits of a Documented Essay
Two Kinds of Intelligence
Typical Response Sequence

Upside Down Map

Voicing Details

Ways to Weave the Journal Into 112
What is a Text?
What is in My Bag?
Working the Senses
Write to the Beat
Writer's Toolbox

Writing Experiences and Reflections
Writing Habits
Writing Intros

 

 

 

 

  

Rhetorical Concepts

How can thinking about an activity or writing assignment through the rhetorical concept of context enhance student writing? How does context relate to other rhetorical concepts, such as audience, purpose, genre, or identity? How can you be explicit to your students about the benefits of focusing on context?

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