Table of Contents
Preface
How to Use This Book
Argumentation, Research and Analysis
Generating “Because” Statements: Using the Conjunction to Reason Through Arguments (Becky Adnot-Haynes)
Finding That Weak Link: Supporting an Argument Exercise (Laura L. Beadling)
Meat Eaters’ Manifesto: Research and Argue the Politics of Consumption (Russell Brickey)
Analyzing Creative Sources: Moving from Emotional Response to Critical Analysis (Rita D. Costello and William Lusk Coppage)
“Patriotism”: Four Definition Exercises (Rita D. Costello)
An Essay That Bridges Narrative with Research (Christine Cucciarre)
Investigative Research Essay: Exploring Local Issues (Melissa Dennihy)
Argument Analysis and Evaluation Essay (Martin J. Fashbaugh)
Argumentation and Logical Fallacies: Headlines as Inductive and Deductive Examples (J.D. Isip)
Assignment Sheet: Literacy Analysis Assignment (Tessa Mellas)
Special Issue: Collaborative Writing and Editing to Produce an Academic Journal (Lauren Matus)
Narrowing the Argument: Finding a “Researchable” Topic (Lauren Matus)
Underlining the Plot: Using Movie Clips to Teach Analysis (Alexandra Oxner)
A Trip to McDonald’s: An Introduction to Basic Research and Argument (Dana Washington)
Audience and Mode
Essay Exam Exercise: Practicing Taking an In-Class Test (Laura L. Beadling)
What People Are Seeing: A Lesson on Composing for Diverse Audiences (Christina Boyles)
Code Switching: Appropriate Language, Situation, and Email Etiquette
(Rita D. Costello)
Letter to My Body: An Exercise in Poetry (Gerardo Del Guercio)
From Written to Oral: Using a Venn Diagram to Teach Modality (Josh Herron)
Using Twitter in the Composition Class: Writing Collaboratively Through Digital Technology (Josh Herron)
Narrative Structure of Storytelling: Using Freytag’s Triangle to Teach Audience (J.D. Isip)
Class Database Project: Extended Project on Writing Presentations
(Denise Landrum-Geyer)
The Art of Incorporating Sources and Discussion of “Slant” in Writing (Debra Rudder Lohe)
“Where in the Heck Is Matt?”: Evaluating Global Cultures Project and Writing “Context” Papers (Lauren Matus)
“Post-Secret” Rhetorical Analysis: Knowing Your Audience (Alexandra Oxner)
Bibliography and Citation Style
In-Text Citations Exercise: Working Through Incorrect MLA Citations to Learn Style (Becky Adnot-Haynes)
A Works Cited Group Exercise (Rita D. Costello)
Constructing a Works Cited Page: For Group Work or Homework (Rita D. Costello)
Annotated Bibliography and Beyond: In-Class Critique and Development (Roslyn Reso Foy)
Avoiding Plagiarism: Integrating and Citing Sources (Debra Rudder Lohe)
Citing Together: Plagiarism and Source Exercise (Ben P. Robertson)
Idea and Thesis Generation
Silent Discussion: Method for Generating Class Discussion (Laura L. Beadling)
Creating Personal Profiles: Five Prompts for Developing Persona (DeMisty Bellinger-Delfeld)
From Topic to Position: A Thesis Statement Exercise (Rita D. Costello)
From Image to Thesis: Description and Observation Exercise (Martin J. Fashbaugh)
Liberating the Conversation at the Start: Narrative Freewriting Exercise (Martin J. Fashbaugh)
Moving Beyond Summary: Ten Prompts for Critical Reading and Analytical Writing (Priscilla Glanville)
Introducing the Conclusion: Writing the Final Paragraph to Focus the
Opening Thesis (John P. Hazen)
Journaling the Headlines: Finding Paper Topics in the News (Kathleen Maloney)
Jump-Start Your Introduction: A Getting-Started Checklist (Christine Photinos)
“Complainstorming”: Brainstorming with Complaints (Nichole E. Stanford)
Grab Bag: Free-Writing Order Out of Chaos (Beth Walker)
Following “The Black Cat”: A Descriptive Essay Assignment (Dennis A. Yommer, Jr.)
Language Usage and Grammar
Teaching Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation and Citation Through
Unintentionally Humorous (Anonymous) Student Errors (Svetlana Bochman)
Mapping Language: A Metadiscourse Exercise (Christine Cucciarre)
Digital Diagramming: Adapting a Tried and True Pedagogy to a Digital
Environment (Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill)
Practical Punctuation: Applying Grammar Rules in Context (Laura Beadling and Russell Brickey)
Meaningful Text Assignment: Short Paragraphs Explaining the Importance of Writing (Lauren Matus)
Making Connections Between “Like” and “Dislike”: Effective Transitions (Alexandra Oxner)
Your? You’re? There? Their?: Spelling Exercise (Christine Photinos)
When Ethos, Pathos and Logos Are a Crime: Rhetoric Scene Investigation (Gary Vaughn)
Organization
Division and Classification Exercises: Learning the Process of Classification (Rita D. Costello)
The Paragraph Game: A Collaborative Game to Teach Paragraph Structure (Francesco Crocco)
Structure as Shape: Using Poetry to Teach Reader Response (Chad Engbers)
Descriptive Outlining, or Fun with Post-Its: Students Learn Essay Reorganization (Kathleen Maloney)
Deciding Their Own Fates: Facilitating Student-Created Rubrics (Chelsea R. Swick)
“Trimming” the Information: Reassembling Student Papers with Scissors and Tape (Virginia Tucker)
Peer Review
Double Take Peer Review: Checking Revisions Between Drafts One and Two (Mary Jo McCloskey)
Three Versions of Peer Review: Worksheets for the Classroom (Mike Farmer)
Peer Review Postings: Understanding Organization from the Reader’s Perspective (Brianne Howard)
Reflection Roundtable: Students Evaluate Their Writing Experience (Afaf (Effat) Jamil Khogeer)
Linguistic Exfoliation: Student Writing Self-Evaluation (Debra Rudder Lohe)
Six Peer Review Strategies: Prompts for In-Class Review (Tessa Mellas)
Visualizing Causality: A Peer Review and Poster Exercise (Lori Mumpower)
Composition Exercise Text: Peer Review Exercises (Abigail G. Scheg)
Alone in a Crowd: An (Anonymous) Peer Review Process (Chelsea R. Swick)
Revision
Revision in Practice: Review and Rewriting Intros in Class (DeMisty Bellinger-Delfeld)
Lessons in Revision with the Beatles and the Declaration of Independence (Rita D. Costello)
Kick Ass Paragraphs: Using Stronger Language to Bring Writing to Life (Tessa Mellas)
A Spatial Approach to Style: Using Tag Clouds for Revision in Narrative Writing (Kristin Mock)
Thinking Like an Editor: Revising Across Media (Martha A. Webber)
Genre Bending: Teaching the Radical Revision/Multimedia Project (Alexandra Oxner and Geoff Bouvier)
Writing Process and Paraphrase
The Letters to the Editor Exercise: Teaching Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle (Leslie Batty)
Creating Tailor-Made Handouts (Homework) (Laura L. Beadling)
Exhaust All Questions: Interrogating a Topic (Rita D. Costello and
William Lusk Coppage)
Show, Don’t Tell: A Description Exercise (Rita D. Costello)
Cultural Literacy vs. Personal Literacy: Using Lists as Evaluation (J.D. Isip)
Direct, Indirect and Impressionistic: Crafting Good Essay Openers (Debra Rudder Lohe)
Summary the Second Time Around: Forging the Reading-Writing Connection (Joseph McCarty)
Interactive Lecture/Practice: Sentence Cohesion and Paragraph Development (Maria L. Soriano)
Paraphrase to Avoid Plagiarism: Diagnostic and Assessment (Rick Williams)
Composing Comics: Writing Description and Dialogue (Dennis A. Yommer, Jr.)
Visual Rhetoric
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Arguing from Close Observation of a Photograph (Catherine Gubernatis Dannen)
Reading the Magazine Ad: Ethos, Pathos and Logos Group Activity (Martin J. Fashbaugh)
Visual Analysis Warm-Up: Learning Cultural Influences Through Imaginary Advertisement (Becky Adnot-Haynes)
Their Own Visual Rhetoric: Using Student Photographs to Teach Ethos, Pathos, Logos (Courtney Hitson)
Assignment: Photo Essay (Fred Johnson)
Assignment: Critical Analysis of a Documentary Film (Fred Johnson)
Reading the Opening Credit Sequence: Visual Analysis Assignment Sheet (Tessa Mellas)
About the Contributors
Index
