Unit 3: Inventing the University

  • Peer Review

    I recommend using this with a feedback menu.

  • Peer Feedback Menu

    I introduce the following using these slides. Editable version:

  • Evocative Object Essay Rubric

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  • Ungrading Self-Evaluation Form

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  • Writing & Reading Strategies: A Pop-Quiz

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  • Embedding Quotations Worksheet

    Use with Embedding Quotations handout. Editable version:

  • Embedding Quotations

    I use this with a Nature of Writing video on YouTube. Editable version:

  • The 3-story Thesis

    I like Amy Guptill’s explanation of the “three story thesis” for concretizing the difference between a high-school level thesis and a college-level thesis. These slides review her examples and also break Ursula LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory” thesis into three levels, since I introduced them to that around the same time. Some students prefer to practice identifying three-story…

  • Lit Analysis vs. Rhetorical Analysis

    When first learning to do rhetorical analysis, students often ask how it differs from literary analysis. I made this handout for easy reference. Word version:

  • Visual Analysis

    I was in graduate school before I read a rationale for literary analysis: that we “read the word” in order to “read the world” (Paulo Freire). When you master one form of analysis, whether it’s visual, textual, or auditory, you increase your ability to analyze in other modes as well.  I accompany the first lesson…