Writing Activities for Composition Teachers
Contents:
Sample Syllabi
My Fall 2006
Syllabus
Sample
Syllabi for Composition Classes
Conference
Questions
Sample
Syllabus for A Personal Writing Class
Quotations
about personal narrative writing
Sample
course Evaluation form
Introductory Activities
Community
Building Activities
What makes
writing a positive or negative experience
Interview
to Create Portraits
Ways to help students find topics
Using
Free Writing to Find a Topic
Ways to get
ideas for papers
Finding
a subject
Using
Genres to get ideas
Writing
From Artifacts
Guided
Imagery: Shifts of vision
Emotional
topics
Ways
to Use Journals
Journal
Writing: General Considerations
Collecting
Exercise
Journal
prompts for imaginative thinking
The Writer's Craft
The Writer’s Craft
Time Exercises
Handling
Problems of Time and Pace
Show not
Tell
Emotional
Words
Writers Block
Audience
Exercise
Vague
Sentences
Horoscope
activity
Writing
With a Bad Attitude
Creating
Characters
Writing
Outside the story
Leads, Endings and Titles
Leads and
Endings (general)
Exercises
With Leads
Examples
of Leads
Beginning
with a given first line
Focus
What is this
story about?
Description
Place
Descriptions
Travel
Writing
Exercises
to improve description
Show
not Tell
Revision and Editing
Revision
and Editing
Revision:
Opening up your story
Revision:
Unsetttling your Drafts
Revision
Exercise
Editing
Tips
Editing
Activities
Common
Errors
High
Order Concerns vs. Low Order Concerns
Peer
Response
Peer
Response
Helping
Students to Become Effective Critics of Each Other's Work
The
Language of Response
Guidelines
for Response Groups
Response
Sheet for Drafts
Responding
to Touchy Issues that Surface in Student Writing
Research
Research
Teaching
the Three Search Paper
Three
Search Schedule
Interview
Schedule Sheet
Issues
Writing
about Issues
Finding
the Research Question
Criteria
for the Evaluation of Three Search Papers
Examples
of Three Search Papers
Multi-genre
activities
Some hints
about Library Research (student handout)
Revising and Editing the three search paper
Collaborative Writing
Collaborative
Writing
Collaborative
writing activities
Collaborative
Writing project
Example of a Collaborative
Paper
Evaluation and Grading
Evaluation
Qualities
of Good Writing
Grading
Sheet
Portfolio
Interview
Poetry
Activities
to spark poetry
Worksheet
for family poetry
Mnemonic
poem
Additional
The Singer Solution to
World Poverty
The
Drowning child and the expanding circle
Voices of the Endangered
American Black Male