Handouts
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Revisioning Exercise
This exercise is meant to be combined with the “Finding & Writing from a New Lead” exercise and, ideally, with Sondra Perl’s “Felt Sense” Exercise. Introduce your students to the concept of wholescale revision using Anne Lamott’s “Shitty 1st Drafts” and the accompanying slideshow. I recommend doing “revisioning” work as a class before asking the students to…
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They Say/I Say Templates
See also the Academic Phrasebank at https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+academic+phrasebank&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8. While the below handout is useful for introducing theses, the Academic Phrasebook is a lot more expansive. It is also an open educational resource students can access for free online.
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Literacy Sponsor Assignment
I recommend preceding this assignment with the “Sponsors of Literacy” slideshow.
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Literacy Audit
This assignment is helpful for 1) determining what “discourse communities” students belong to and 2) identifying interests for independent research assignments. Editable version: