Introduction: Why dynamic activities? -- 1. Fun ways to teach genre. Thanking an alien / Jeremy Levine ; Genre analysis / Margaret Poncin Reeves ; Elevator pitch : present yourself in a minute? / Sofia Tarabrina ; The genre ball activity / Dana Lynn Driscoll ; Genre heads up! / Kalila Bohsali ; Reverse-engineering genre / Erick Piller ; Analyzing genre for your major / Caroline Webb ; State of the genre (understanding real-world genres) / Samantha Morgan ; Detecting genre conventions from country songs to recommendation requests / Zack K. De Piero ; Analyzing and creating greeting cards / Sarah Elizabeth Adams ; Misjudging and reevaluating genres through "The crush" / James M. Cochran -- 2. Dynamic ways to teach rhetoric. "Bad email" rhetoric / Jerry Stinnett ; Menus as artifacts for rhetorical analysis / Rhiannon Scharnhorst ; Guess the rhetorical situation / Noreen Moore ; Key terms for rhetorical analysis / Sara Austin ; Practice rhetorical analysis through commercials / Jiaxin Zhang ; Encounters with racism / Cheryl L. Caesar ; Hypatia as a feminist rhetorical situation / Mohamed Yacoub ; Rhetorical coding : learning and identifying parts of annotations / Olivia Imirie ; Identifying rhetorical moves : public apology statements / Margaret Poncin Reeves ; Building students' rhetorical knowledge and reading skills through proximity / Katherina Sibbald ; Design and deliver : shaking up the lectures on rhetoric / Steven J. Corbett -- 3. Inspiring ways to teach composing and revising. Super Bowl summaries (descriptions) and analyses / Stephanie Lim ; Writing assignment knowledge table / Kelly A. Moreland ; Thesis workshop / Christine Wilson ; Paragraph scramble / Kristina Reardon ; Getting in the flow / Joshua C. Jensen ; Using comics to teach organization / Carolyne M. King ; Color coding and annotating a sample essay / Ruth Li ; Revision arts and crafts / Gillian Steinberg ; The peer-review interview / Kim Freeman ; When the grade-ee becomes the grader : identifying conventions / Pamela Meyers ; Using revision dice to rethink drafts / Susan Pagnac -- 4. Captivating ways to teach argument and synthesis. Composing an argument / Caitlin Ray ; Fallacies of argument bingo / Emily Beckwith ; Supreme Court oral arguments / Candice Yacomo ; Composing responsive refutation sections / Roberto S. Leon ; "The believing game" : imagining a naysayer in argumentative writing / Mike Garcia ; Understanding analysis versus synthesis (with Candy!) / Ella R. Browning ; Paper airplane synthesis / Cynthia Mwenja ; Teaching synthesis by sorting monsters / Carolyne M. King ; Using a source chart for synthesis and authorship / Jessica Jorgenson Borchert -- 5. Exciting ways to teach visual and social media. Summarizing with traditional writing and emojis / Omonpee W. (O.W.) Petcoff ; "Authentic" writing and social media / Jessica McCaughey and Brian Fitzpatrick ; Using rhetoric to get right swipes : Tinder profile activity / Rachel Dortin ; Critically evaluating and synthesizing TikTok / Lauren Garskie ; "Bad" designs : an introductory multimodal assignment / Courtney A. Mauck ; Composing, designing, and advocating : integrating multimodal design into antiracist pedagogy / Jialei Jiang ; Students create memes throughout the semester / Erin B. Jensen ; Identifying slant in media / Joshua Botvin ; Introduction to the infographic genre / Sarah E. Polo ; Instagram writing analysis and reflection / Erin B. Jensen ; Audience and genre transfer : from academic to social media contexts / Omar Ahmed Yacoub ; Dolly Parton and the power of audience / Kelsey Dufresne -- 6. Engaging ways to teach reading skills. Fleeing and reading : using a digital escape room to teach textual engagement / Matthew Sumpter ; Havin' a jam session : synchronous social annotations / Dagmar Scharold and Manual Fernandez ; Question clouds / Dan Curtis-Cummins ; Writing studies synthesis Venn diagrams / Kelly A. Moreland ; A silent participation day : engaging in rhetorical listening through sticky notes / Beth Buyserie ; Reflect, compose, and converse / Nitya Pandey ; Inspired, illustrated, immortalized, imagined! African American social justice champions as legacy leaders / Rachelle Gold ; Looking and style : an exercise in description and observation / Jeanette Lehn -- 7. Invigorating ways to teach research. Research article bingo / Loring Pfeiffer ; Survey says! Coding primary data / Tyler Gillespie ; "Speed dating" exercise : comparative research / Elizabeth Baxmeyer ; Creating evaluation criteria for sources using hoax web content / Kathleen M. Turner Ledgerwood ; Introduction to source evaluation with the media bias chart / Sarah Lonelodge ; Understanding types of research and methods of inquiry / Madeline Crozier ; Research writing response as substitute for a reading assignment / Bradley Smith ; The gift of a source / Erika Luckert ; Scrutinizing credibility / Zakery R. Muñoz ; Revising annoying source use / Lauren Garskie ; Revision stations for IMRaD-formatted assignments / Anne Silva ; References scramble / Tara Moore -- 8. Immersive ways to teach grammar and language. Escape the citation / Savannah Jensen and Emily Beckwith ; Revision rainbow : editing for sentence variety / Amanda Sladek ; Creating human sentences / Beth Buyserie ; Grammatical choices : generating AAWWUBBIS sentences / Tina Arduini ; How y'all write : exploring language varieties / Kristen Thomas McGill ; Crowdsourcing grammar and style / Travis J. Knapp ; "This sentence is correct, but..." : improving effectiveness through rhetorical grammar / Xiao Tan ; Representing and using others' ideas : finding the perfect signal verb / Michelle Baptiste ; Writing to "sound like yourself" / Sarah V. Seeley -- 9. Thrilling ways to think outside the curriculum. Exploring your world / Jolie Goorjian ; "Going, going, gone!" Titles auction / Belinda Kremer ; Bringing the "unending conversation" to life / Elise A. Green ; Taking risks and failing like an improviser / Lauren Esposito ; The kids today and their literary practices / Faith Kurtyka ; The poetry and politics of hip-hop as text / Sandra Young ; Walk with writing / Jackie Hoermann-Elliott ; Semester-long goals journal / Gillian Steinberg ; Rhetoric of rubrics / Lizbett Tinoco and Sonya Barrera Eddy ; Decide as a class : effort-based on traditional grading? / Misty D. Fuller ; Why are you here? The rhetoric of college marketing / Candice Yacono ; Re-presenting student writing : remediation in FYC / Eric D. Brown ; Where I am writing from : an introduction to rhetorical cartographies / Rubén Casas -- Alternative table of contents : an easy guide to finding activities.
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