Teaching Resources: Genre

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Genre

Adding to a Conversation - Assignment
Adding to a Conversation - Sample Proposal
Adding to a Conversation - ReSeeing the Draft
All the World Is a Text
Audience Textual Analysis

Calendar and Music Activity
Can Online Discussion Write/Right Itself?
Cinderella Story
Citing Grammar: Proofreading and Citation Work
Civic Writing
Class Discussion Suggestions
Class Play
Collaborative Writing for Multiple Audiences
Composing In Eprime
Computers and Practice: Using What We Have
Constructing a Reading
Copycat Editing
Course Planning
Cover Letter
Critical Cartooning
Critiquing Film

Diversifying Literacy Spark Exercise
Dream Interpretation

Exploring a Sample Conversation

Fun With Tabloids

Grammar Girl Podcast
Guidelines for Unit 4 Assignment

How to be a Poet in One Easy Lesson

Improv as Idea Wrestling
Incorporating a Text Into Your Essay
Inquiring Into Self - Making Meaning From Scratch
Inquiring Into Self - Responding as Re-Seeing
Interacting With Texts - Sample Assignment Sheet
Interview Exercise
In the Head of the Ad Makers       

Journal Prompt Dice Game

Legos Exercise for Sentence Structure

Letters to an Editor: Practicing a New Genre
Letter Response
Linking with Yarn

Making a Hypertext (Without a Computer!)
Making Every Sentence Count

Metaphorical Mess
Music Appreciation - Englwrit 112 Bandstand

New Experiences

Nonlinear Composition: Cross-Genre Writing

On This Person's Walls

Peer Response Techniques - Sequencing Prompts
Peer Response Workshop
Peer Review for Adding to the Conversation
Photo Essay
Places Exercise
Possible Ways of Responding to a Text
Postcard Exercise
Poster Gallery
Practical Ways of Thinking About Grammar
Print Text Collage

Quoting, Citing, and Student Writing

Recommended Readings: Other Words (PDF)
Reflective Writing as Free Writing
Responding to the Class Magazine

Rethinking Unit 1 from the Perspective of a Fiction Writer

Self As Writer - Questionnaire
Sentence Workshop
Short Long Short

Some Text Wrestling Ideas - Magazine Creation
Statements About Teacher Response
Students' Academic Discourse
Style and Substance

Take Out Your Pencils
Telephone Game - Englwrit 112 Style
Traits of a Documented Essay
Trying On Style Using Poe,Woolf, and Hemmingway
Two Kinds of Intelligence
Typical Response Sequence

Upside Down Map

Ways to Weave the Journal Into 112
What is a Text?
Work Backwards and Cut Off the Ends
Working the Senses
Write to the Beat
Writer's Toolbox
Writing and Remediation

Writing Experiences and Reflections
Writing Habits
Writing Intros
Writing the Visual Image

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Rhetorical Concepts

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

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