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Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition

DYNMC ACTS FIRST-YEAR CMPSTN: 96 WAYS IMMRS INSPR CPTVT

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<P>This collection of activities for the composition classroom includes dozens of practical, useful, successful, and accessible exercises that have been developed and implemented by writing instructors from all over the country. The editors have assembled a collection of tried-and-proven teaching activities to help both novice and experienced teachers plan, prepare, and implement writing instruction in college. As two educators who have been teaching writing in the field for more than a decade, they have created the resource they wished they had. The book addresses many elements that are at the core of teaching first-year composition, providing engaging and inspiring ways to teach: rhetoric; composing and revising; argument and synthesis; visual and social media; reading skills; foundational research; and grammar and language. It also provides ways to think outside of the curriculum to engage students in active learning that goes beyond the class syllabus. By focusing on and emphasizing pedagogical practices, this book strengthens and brings to the forefront the practical to transform how students learn from, interact with, and experience first-year composition instruction.</P>

Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Why Dynamic Activities?.
1: Fun Ways to Teach Genre.
2: Thanking an Alien.
3: Genre Analysis Activity.
4: Elevator Pitch&#x2014;Present Yourself in a Minute!.
5: The Genre Ball Activity.
6: Genre Heads Up!.
7: Reverse-Engineering Genre.
8: Analyzing Genre for Your Major.
9: State of the Genre (Understanding Real-World Genres).
10: Detecting Genre Conventions from Country Songs to Recommendation Requests.
11: Analyzing and Creating Greeting Cards.
12: Misjudging and Reevaluating Genres through &#x201C;The Crush&#x201D;.
13: Dynamic Ways to Teach Rhetoric.
14: &#x201C;Bad Email&#x201D; Rhetoric.
15: Menus as Artifacts for Rhetorical Analysis.
16: Guess the Rhetorical Situation.
17: Key Terms for Rhetorical Analysis.
18: Practice Rhetorical Analysis through Commercials.
19: Encounters with Racism.
20: Hypatia as a Feminist Rhetorical Situation.
21: Rhetorical Coding: Learning and Identifying Parts of Annotations.
22: Identifying Rhetorical Moves: Public Apology Statements.
23: Building Students&#x2019; Rhetorical Knowledge and Reading Skills Through Proximity.
24: Design and Deliver: Shaking Up the Lecture on Rhetoric.
25: Inspiring Ways to Teach Composing and Revising.
26: Super Bowl Summaries (Descriptions) and Analyses.
27: Writing Assignment Knowledge Table.
28: Thesis Workshop.
29: Paragraph Scramble.
30: Getting in the Flow.
31: Using Comics to Teach Organization.
32: Color-Coding and Annotating a Sample Essay.
33: Revision Arts and Crafts.
34: The Peer-Review Interview.
35: When the Grade-ee Becomes the Grader: Identifying Conventions.
36: Using Revision Dice to Rethink Drafts.
37: Captivating Ways to Teach Argument and Synthesis.
38: Composing an Argument.
39: Fallacies of Argument Bingo.
40: Supreme Court Oral Arguments.
41: Composing Responsive Refutation Sections.
42: &#x201C;The Believing Game&#x201D;: Imagining a Naysayer in Argumentative Writing.
43: Understanding Analysis versus Synthesis (with Candy!).
44: Paper Airplane Synthesis.
45: Teaching Synthesis by Sorting Monsters.
46: Using a Source Chart for Synthesis and Authorship.
47: Exciting Ways to Teach Visual and Social Media.
48: Summarizing with Traditional Writing and Emojis.
49: &#x201C;Authentic&#x201D; Writing and Social Media.
50: Using Rhetoric to Get Right Swipes: Tinder Profile Activity.
51: Critically Evaluating and Synthesizing TikTok.
52: &#x201C;Bad&#x201D; Designs: An Introductory Multimodal Assignment.
53: Composing, Designing, and Advocating: Integrating Multimodal Design into Antiracist Pedagogy.
54: Students Create Memes throughout the Semester.
55: Identifying Slant in Media.
56: Introduction to the Infographic Genre.
57: Instagram Writing Analysis and Reflection.
58: Audience and Genre Transfer: From Academic to Social Media Contexts.
59: Dolly Parton and the Power of Audience.
60: Engaging Ways to Teach Reading Skills.
61: Fleeing and Reading: Using a Digital Escape Room to Teach Textual Engagement.
62: Havin&#x2019; a Jam Session: Synchronous Social Annotations.
63: Question Clouds.
64: Writing Studies Synthesis Venn Diagrams.
65: A Silent Participation Day: Engaging in Rhetorical Listening through Sticky Notes.
66: Reflect, Compose, and Converse.
67: Inspired, Illustrated, Immortalized, Imagined! African American Social Justice Champions as Legacy Leaders.
68: Looking and Style: An Exercise in Description and Observation.
69: Invigorating Ways to Teach Research.
70: Research Article Bingo.
71: Survey Says! Coding Primary Data.
72: &#x201C;Speed Dating&#x201D; Exercise: Comparative Research.
73: Creating Evaluation Criteria for Sources Using Hoax Web Content.
74: Introduction to Source Evaluation with the Media Bias Chart.
75: Understanding Types of Research and Methods of Inquiry.
76: Research Writing Response as Substitute for a Reading Assignment.
77: The Gift of a Source.
78: Scrutinizing Credibility.
79: Revising Annoying Source Use.
80: Revision Stations for IMRaD-Formatted Assignments.
81: References Scramble.
82: Immersive Ways to Teach Grammar and Language.
83: Escape the Citation.
84: Revision Rainbow: Editing for Sentence Variety.
85: Creating Human Sentences.
86: Grammatical Choices: Generating AAAWWUBBIS Sentences.
87: How Y&#x2019;all Write: Exploring Language Varieties.
88: Crowdsourcing Grammar and Style.
89: &#x201C;This Sentence Is Correct, But&#x2026;&#x201D;: Improving Effectiveness through Rhetorical Grammar.
90: Representing and Using Others&#x2019; Ideas: Finding the Perfect Signal Verb.
91: Writing to &#x201C;Sound Like Yourself&#x201D;.
92: Thrilling Ways to Think Outside the Curriculum.
93: Exploring Your World.
94: &#x201C;Going, Going, Gone!&#x201D; Titles Auction.
95: Bringing the &#x201C;Unending Conversation&#x201D; to Life.
96: Taking Risks and Failing like an Improviser.
97: The Kids Today and Their Literacy Practices.
98: The Poetry and Politics of Hip-Hop as Text.
99: Walk with Writing.
100: Semester-Long Goals Journal.
101: Rhetoric of Rubrics.
102: Decide as a Class: Effort-Based or Traditional Grading?.
103: Why Are You Here? The Rhetoric of College Marketing.
104: Re-Presenting Student Writing: Remediation in FYC.
105: Where I Am Writing From: An Introduction to Rhetorical Cartographies.
Alternative Table of Contents: An Easy Guide to Finding Activities.
Editors.

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