Tag: Presentation
Engaging Your Class in Peer-Listening During Presentations
Being teachers and instructors, we frequently include oral presentations into our syllabi. Unlike other group or individual activities, Power Point presentations on a particular...
Raising the Stakes: Group Projects as Competitive Contests
Group projects regularly cause trepidation but structuring them as competitive contests leads students away from generic and predictable outcomes.
Write Club
Two opposing writers. Two opposing ideas. This assignment captures the essence of Ian Belknap's Write Club as it has students face off in argument based presentations.
Grammar Lesson Presentation
A grammar presentation assignment for small groups on an assigned topic. Each group is required to provide an explanation, examples, and a way for the class to practice the lesson. This assignment also includes a reflective component.
Career Profile
An engaging and easily adaptable assignment for early career students that helps them navigate their college career paths
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Lego: The Building Blocks of Writing
One of my favorite in-class activities is simple, easy to set up, and, most importantly, it involves Lego. I often use this in composition...
Social Justice Proposal
A written group assignment that asks students to create a proposal designed to convince a funding agency to fund their organization’s new social justice project.
The Bad Boyfriend Counterargument
This handout is a counterargument explanation sheet using the example of
trying to persuade your loved ones that your bad boyfriend is not so bad....