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Exercises & Handouts

Teaching ideas that supplement Essential Lessons with a wide range of low-stakes activities adaptable to many courses

WR 111: Academic Writing for ELL 1

  • Advice to Students on Preparing for Oral Presentations
  • Class Participation Rubric
  • Individual in Community Assignment
  • Picture Prompts for Online Classes
  • Remote Learning Expectations & Etiquette
  • Self-Assessment
  • Teaching with the WR Journal in WR 111 or WR 112
  • Whose History Matters? The Importance of Co-Conspirators
  • WR 111 Grammar Presentations
  • WR 111 Mid-Semester Self-Evaluation
  • WR 111 Rotating Team Presentations

WR 112: Academic Writing for ELL 2

  • Advice to Students on Preparing for Oral Presentations
  • Class Participation Rubric
  • Inner Critic
  • Picture Prompts for Online Classes
  • Portfolio Analysis and Peer Review
  • Remote Learning Expectations & Etiquette
  • Self-Assessment
  • Teaching with the WR Journal in WR 111 or WR 112
  • Whose History Matters? The Importance of Co-Conspirators
  • WR 112 Portfolio Assignment and Rubric
  • WR 112: Intercultural Literacy, Race, Racism, and Antiracism

WR 120: First-Year Writing Seminar

  • Advice to Students on Preparing for Oral Presentations
  • Clarity Races
  • Class Participation Rubric
  • Close Reading Exercise
  • Crafting a Template for Your Observation Notes
  • Creating an Oral Presentation Rubric
  • Decoding a Public Genre
  • Developing Key Terms
  • Dork Short Oral Presentations
  • Formulating Questions and Claims Based on Observations
  • Inner Critic
  • Paragraph/Essay Reconstruction
  • Picture Prompts for Online Classes
  • Portfolio Analysis and Peer Review
  • Pre-Reflection for Outside-the-Classroom Experiences
  • Remote Learning Expectations & Etiquette
  • Self-Assessment
  • Strategies for Engaging with Critics
  • Using Different Kinds of Sources to Analyze an Exhibit
  • Visual Representation of Texts
  • WR 120 or WR 15x Portfolio Assignment and Rubric
  • Write the Title First

WR 15x: Writing, Research, & Inquiry

  • Advice to Students on Preparing for Oral Presentations
  • Clarity Races
  • Close Reading Exercise
  • Crafting a Template for Your Observation Notes
  • Decoding a Public Genre
  • Elevator Story
  • Finding and Using Model Abstracts
  • Formulating Questions and Claims Based on Observations
  • Framing a Conceptual Problem
  • How Research Works in a New Genre
  • Interview a Professor
  • Paragraph/Essay Reconstruction
  • Picture Prompts for Online Classes
  • Portfolio Analysis and Peer Review
  • Pre-Reflection for Outside-the-Classroom Experiences
  • Reading for Research
  • Remote Learning Expectations & Etiquette
  • Self-Assessment
  • Use a Text as a Theory Source
  • Using Different Kinds of Sources to Analyze an Exhibit
  • Video Presentation and Reflections
  • Visual Representation of Texts
  • WR 120 or WR 15x Portfolio Assignment and Rubric
  • Write the Title First

Digital/Multimedia Expression

  • Self-Assessment Remediation
  • Video Presentation and Reflections

Oral/Signed Communication

  • Advice to Students on Preparing for Oral Presentations
  • Class Participation Rubric
  • Creating an Oral Presentation Rubric
  • Critical Conversations
  • Dork Short Oral Presentations
  • Elevator Story
  • Interview a Professor
  • Video Presentation and Reflections
  • WR 111 Grammar Presentations
  • WR 111 Rotating Team Presentations

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  • Flipped Learning Modules
  • Major Assignments
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