Teaching Resources: Identity

Writing Program Teaching Database

Identity

Adding to a Conversation - Responding as Audience
All the World Is a Text
Analyzing Texts Through a Cultural Lens
Audience Textual Analysis
Autobiographical Collage Essay

Bibliography For Setting the Tone
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Assignment
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Generative Writing Prompts
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Note Card Exercise
Blowing Things Into Proportion - Other Activities

Can Online Discussion Write/Right Itself?
Collaborative Writing for Multiple Audiences
Contexts That Make Me - Assignment
Contexts That Make Me - Revision Exercise
Contexts That Make Me - Generative Writing Activities
Crisis and Response a WritingProgram's Self Exam

Diversity In Required Writing Courses

Experimenting with Voice

Favorite Meal Exercise

Generative Writing Activities for Blowing Things Into Proportion
Generative Writing Activities for Contexts That Make Me
Generative Writing Activities for My Self In Words
Generative Writing Activities for Self As Writer
Generative Writing Activities for Self In Contradiction

Initial Movements I Am
Inquiring Into Self - Show and Tell
Interview Exercise
In the Head of the Ad Makers       

Letter Response

Metaphorical Mess
My Self In Words - Assignment
My Self In Words - Generative Writing Activities
My Self In Words - Publication Activities

On This Person's Walls

Postcard Exercise

Recommended Readings: Other Words (PDF)
Reflections on Class Management
Reflective Writing

Self As Writer - Assignment
Self As Writer - Generative Writing Activities
Self As Writer - Publication Activity
Self As Writer - Questionnaire
Self Evaluation
Self In Contradiction - Generative Writing Activities
Self In Contradiction - Sample Assignment Sheet
Students' Academic Discourse

Trash Exercise
Typical Response Sequence

Upside Down Map

Ways to Weave the Journal Into 112
What is in My Bag?
Working the Senses
Writing Experiences and Reflections
Writing Habits
Writing Intros

  

Rhetorical Concepts

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

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