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Hendry, Carolyn EW – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Presents an exercise in descriptive writing that shows how to take a subjective statement and support or deny it using a common body of factual observations. (PA)
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Freshman Composition, High Schools, Higher Education
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Kuhlman, Keely – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes an assignment for high school or college literature classes in which students focus on a particular character, answer a list of questions about that character, and eventually write an imagined yet realistic dialog with that character. Notes that this helps students grasp a character's complexity and depth. (SR)
Descriptors: Characterization, English Instruction, High Schools, Higher Education
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Wilcox, Thomas W. – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Offers a writing exercise intended for college English classes, which offers a hypothetical case to be considered (along with directions for papers and additional leads) that prompts students to consider ceremonial uses of language (such as the "Pledge of Allegiance") and various issues related to it. (SR)
Descriptors: Ceremonies, Class Activities, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Lindholdt, Paul – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Describes how creating a poem that focuses on memory, understanding, and emotion can lead to the construction of a meditative poem. States that poetry of meditation can be modified for use in almost any writing or literature classroom environment. (PA)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Higher Education, Language Rhythm, Meditation
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Beidler, Peter G. – Exercise Exchange, 2000
Describes three assignments the author uses when teaching Chaucer (suitable for college or college prep high school classes) in which students learn what iambic pentameter is by writing two rhyming couplets, a ten-line conversation in rhyming couplets, and a creative project of at least 25 rhyming couplets, all in iambic pentameter. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
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Sherer, John – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Demonstrates how grading students journal can be made easier by making the journals goal-oriented, such as using them as the basis for exams. Suggests that journal assignments can involve more complex learning tasks such as analyzing, interpreting, and applying course materials in specific ways. (PA)
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Student Journals
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Clark, John R. – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Describes ways in which freshman composition classes can be made more interesting, such as the use of cliche analysis. Defines cliche, and provides some appropriate examples for classroom use. (PA)
Descriptors: Cliches, Freshman Composition, High Schools, Higher Education
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Brown, Stephen G. – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Aims to teach students how to merge the realms of creativity and analysis by using metaphors. Presents various activities to develop metaphorical thinking and writing skills. (PA)
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Metaphors, Thinking Skills
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Parker, Elaine – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Describes an assignment in which students interview businesses to learn about the kinds of writing done in that business and then assess the rhetorical context of such writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Business, Class Activities, High Schools, Higher Education
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Brown, Stephen G. – Exercise Exchange, 1994
Describes how generating effective advertising copy affords students practice in aspects of persuasive writing, such as developing a thesis, refuting counter-arguments, and writing in a comparison-contrast mode. Notes that this approach helps students negotiate the problematic shift from expressive to persuasive discourse without losing their…
Descriptors: Advertising, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Secondary Education
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Drake, David B. – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Explains a descriptive analysis exercise based on Chapter 99 of "Moby Dick." Notes that students are given a description of a coin, asked to draw the coin, and then freewrite about what they and their classmates have drawn. States that the exercise is intended to illustrate the relationship between objective and subjective description.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, High Schools, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Parry, Sally E. – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Describes how showing a film version of a novel, short story, or play after a class has read and talked about the text can be an interesting way to encourage students to think about the text and develop a critical stance. Offers examples from two texts and their film versions. (SR)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction, Films, Higher Education
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Scenters-Zapico, John; Gooding, Mark – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Presents an initial minicollaboration exercise with which to begin collaborative projects. Notes that students discuss how to respond to a range of comments and concerns of prior students to collaboration, thus shifting learning and discovery to students from the very first step. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education
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Lundy, Jo – Exercise Exchange, 1999
Describes a writing assignment (useful for junior high through college age students) that seeks to improve students' descriptive writing through a set of class writing assignments using visual and concrete objects. Allows students to gain awareness, gain knowledge and discuss it, and ask questions as a body of learners rather than in isolation.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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Jackson, Alan – Exercise Exchange, 2000
Describes an assignment in which students read a travelogue excerpt and then must determine specified aspects of the writer's character based on evidence from the text. Notes how this exercise shapes students' awareness of how character influences writing, and how biases and assumptions influence reading. (SR)
Descriptors: Authors, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Secondary Education
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