Teaching Resources: Purpose

Writing Program Teaching Database

Purpose

Adding to a Conversation - Assignment
Adding to a Conversation - Enacting Choices
Adding to a Conversation - Sample Proposal
Adding to a Conversation - Re-Seeing the Draft
All the World is a Text
Asking Questions to Further a Conversation

Blowing Things Into Proportion - Generative Writing Activities

Calendar & Music Activity
Civic Writing
Class Discussion Suggestions
Collaborative Writing for Multiple Audiences
Composing in E-Prime
Computers and Practice: Using What We Have
Constructing a Reading
ontexts That Make Me - Generative Writing Activities
Contexts That Make Me - Revision Exercise
Contexts That Make Me - Famous Pairs Activity
Copycat Editing
Cover Letter
Critical Cartooning

Descriptive Writing with Found.Com
Dream Interpretation

Exploratory Thoughts for Adding to a Conversation
Exploring a Sample Conversation

Favorite Meal Exercise
First Class Writing 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 Unit 4 Assignment

Improv as Idea Wrestling
Inquiring Into Self - Imagining the Director's Role
Interacting With Texts - Analyzing Development
Interacting With Texts - Balancing the Ideas
Interacting With Texts - Essay Mapping
Interview Exercise
In the Head of the Ad Makers       

Journal with a Mission

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

Making Every Sentence Count
Moving Toward Reflection
Music Appreciation - Englwrit 112 Bandstand
My Self In Words - Generative Writing Activities

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

Quoting, Citing, and Student Writing

Reflection - Reading Like a Writer
Reflective Writing

Reflective Writing to Reinforce the Arc
Reigning In the Conversation
Research Update and Annotated Bibliography
Responding to the Class Magazine

Rethinking Unit 1 from the Perspective of a Fiction Writer
Rhetorical Prospectus

Self as Writer - Generative Writing Activities
Self in Contradiction - Generative Writing Activities
Self In Contradiction - Sample Assignment Sheet
Sentence Workshop
Short Long Short

Show and Tell
Some Approaches to Peer Response
Some Text Wrestling Ideas - Magazine Creation
Sorting Through This Mess
Students' Academic Discourse

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

Ways to Weave the Journal Into 112
Work Backwards and Cut Off the Ends
Writearound - Considering Multiple Perspectives
Writer's Toolbox
Writing Intros
Writing the Visual Image

  

Rhetorical Concepts

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

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