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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I Was Wearing Them the Day–Touchstone Moments and Details for the Fiction Writer
I’ve always been interested in the question of where the fiction writer finds material. I’ve always been particularly interested in how the autobiographical gets...
A Paraphrasing PowerPoint
A PowerPoint presentation explaining what paraphrasing is, how to paraphrase, and an in-class activity for paraphrasing.
Class Starters for the Fiction Workshop
For fiction writers, provocation is part of the job description. The same should go for our teaching of fiction, especially with students who are...