Tag: Memoir
The Advice Column Two Ways–Part Two: First-Year Writing
My FYW classes include lessons on the rhetorical appeals, and Sugar offered me a concrete, easily-digested way of introducing these concepts in class.
The Advice Column Two Ways–Part One: Creative Nonfiction
Writing advice columns with the skills of the essayist allows CNF writers to focus on the shared, often abstract, subjects of disparate experiences.
Ethics Self-Quiz
Discussing ethics in Creative Nonfiction can feel like a static list of do's and don'ts but I start my unit by giving them this Ethics Self-Quiz
College Writing, Procrastination, and Music
This multi-genre assignment asks students to first explore how much they know their tendencies to procrastinate in a personal essay, then to interview a peer about their respective writing processes, and finally, to compare their own personal essay and an analysis of their interview in a cover letter.
Literary Magazine Submissions
A handout covering the basics of submitting to literary magazines: where to submit, cover letters, terminology, and mistakes to avoid.
The Moth Memoir
An assignment that asks students to create what the Moth's mini-memoirs are known for: true stories, well told.
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The Hip-Hop Nation
An argumentative essay that requires students to clearly articulate their position on whether rap and hip-hop have a negative or positive effect on its listeners, if there should be control over the content of songs, and to explore the reasons why people are affected by these genres so strongly.
The Current Event Article
I’ve taught multiple sections of composition over the years and without fail a majority (but not all) of my students have little interest in...
The Office Challenge
Office hours can feel long, laborious, and lonely when no one shows up, especially in the beginning of a semester. One way I've found to increase my students' use of office hours is to challenge them to meet with me.