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Google Mapping Travel Narratives: Lolita

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 09:27
Students use Google mapping software to track the characters' journey jo

This assignment asks students to engage in an uncommon form of literary analysis, where the goal is to determine the significance of location and travel in the novel. The entire class collaborates in creating a Google map of all of the places that Humbert Humbert travels to in Lolita.

Using Prezi for Outlining Papers

Submitted by Plourde on Wed, 10/01/2014 - 17:53

Students will synthesize their own rhetorical analysis with background research on their selected controversies using the visual-spatial format mimicked by Prezi's software.

Creating Visual Models of Rhetorical Concepts with Adobe Illustrator

Submitted by detweiler on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 06:53

I’ve often found that writing about rhetorical concepts and theories only takes students so far. This assignment allows students to create concrete visual representations of concepts and theories in order to approach and think through them in a different manner.

Speed Dating with Thesis Statements

Submitted by Amy Tuttle on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 15:40

Meet a room full of thesis statements that want to meet YOU!

Agonistic Debate on a Course Blog

Submitted by coulson on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 12:01

Students break up into two groups to engage in agonistic debate regarding an issue in an assigned reading in the course.

Google Images and Book Covers - Tracking Cultural Change

Submitted by Ptacek on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 14:37
Various covers of the novel Lolita

Images on book covers, blurbs or reviews on dust jackets, and publishers’ summaries all provide constructed argumentation about the text within that is designed to provoke an emotional and analytic response.

Composing Tutorials for Navigating Databases

Submitted by Schultz on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:18
Students write short manuals outlining how to use databases

RHE 306 group work: Students write short manuals outlining how to use databases (LexisNexis, Infotrac Newsstand, Academic One File, Opposing Viewpoints, Google/Wikipedia).

Using Music To Teach Sound Citation

Submitted by Cowan on Mon, 10/28/2013 - 13:40
Vanilla Ice and Freddie Mercury of Queen

During a discussion of proper citation guidelines, I play for my class a collection of rather infamous examples of musical plagiarism, illustrating for the students the nuances of knowing when to attribute to a source and when not.

Teaching Ethos Using Online Dating Profiles

Submitted by Cate Blouke on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 21:53
Students analyze portions of profiles excerpted from online dating sites to discuss ethos

Students analyze portions of profiles excerpted from the free online dating site, OkCupid, in order to talk about ethos, values, ideology and goodwill.  The exercise, in turn, encourages students to consider their own online presences, their values, and the ways in which rhetoric has “real world” applications.

Facilitating Multimedia Composition

Submitted by RMazique on Sat, 04/05/2014 - 01:33
YouTube Video page for the Disability POP Culture channel; it shows the images and lengths of eight videos. We also see the titles for the four videos in the first row; they are titled "Obesity in America," "Voices in Me" by Jamie Smith, "Changing Lives Through the Power of Sports," "Rethinking Personality Disorder and Labels," 3:26; an image of Sarah Palin sitting on a couch gesturing for a video 2:37 minutes long, an image of a blind character on "Pretty Little Liars" for a video 6:02 minutes long; more

This lesson helped students begin composing their final rhetoric assignment: a Multimedia Argument Project (MAP). I encouraged students to work with each other during the planning process and to collaborate with one another as they developed their digital literacy skills.

Mapping Poetic Word Choice to Discover Literary Themes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 09:45
Creating a mindmap of key words can yield a list of important themes

The assignment allows students to discuss their literary close-reading essays with each other, while also attempting to coordinate those close-readings with larger thematic issues discussed in class. The idea is to use individual words to learn more about global concerns in a literary text.

Introducing Rhetorical Analysis with Contemporary Advertisements

Submitted by sariddick on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:01

The aim of this lesson is to provide students with an accessible and engaging introduction to rhetorical analysis. Students will view four brief texts—three thirty-second videos and one print advertisement—and try to identify the audience, the speaker, and the argument contained in each.

Blogging Research from the Oxford English Dictionary

Submitted by Gulesserian on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 11:42
A picture of an open dictionary page with eyeglasses on top.

In two short blog posts, I asked students to choose an interesting or perplexing word to look up in the books we'd just finished reading. After conducting their research, students blogged about their findings and made a quick effort at applying their research to a passage. 

Mapping a Controversy (Literally)

Submitted by Stevenson on Fri, 04/24/2015 - 13:49

Students create Google maps to contextualize events and locations related to their controversies.

Setting Up a Studio Environment for Multimedia Projects

Submitted by Scott Nelson on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 20:27
Get Excited and Make Things

Whenever I teach, I always assign some form of multimedia project, and these practices have helped to set up a studio environment where collaborative multimedia projects can thrive. Rather than post an explicit lesson plan to our site, I thought I’d run through a set of practices that have been successful for me ove

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