The instructor identifies three to five of the most creative and accurate analogies and presents them to the class. The class votes for the "best" one, which earns the student extra credit. The journal writing exercises promote dialogue between the instructor and the students, generating in-...
I am doing a bit of writing now but that’s without any proper learning, just my own outpourings. Maybe I can improve upon it by going through these exercises. Thank you so much.” - Shail “Dear Fiona, I just wanted to take a moment to Thank You for your writing course. I’ve ...
It not only enhances their understanding of character dynamics but also gets their creative juices flowing. These exercises serve as both a challenge and a tool, pushing students to delve deeper into the complexities of human interaction. So, whether you’re a budding writer or someone looking t...
What Are Dialogue Writing Worksheets? Dialogue writing worksheets provide targeted exercises to help students master the mechanics of writing dialogue correctly. This includes properly formatting dialogue with quotation marks to bring words to life, using commas and paragraph breaks appropriately, and punctu...
Expanding on the essential elements of all successful scripts - the reader's emotional experience - this course will analyze great dialogue and offer helpful dialogue rewriting exercises. If you're looking to raise your dialogue to professional standards, Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact is the ...
One of the most difficult endeavors in the engineering curriculum is encouraging students to develop creative, independent thought and a deep level of understanding. To achieve these results, we incorporate journal writing exercises into the curriculum of a core chemical engineering course, ChE 363 (...
Exercises: Build a character based on three descriptors. Make a second character that is the polar opposite. Put them in a scene together. Write a scene that leads to a monologue where one character addresses the others at length with passion. ...
Writing the Body with Davey Calderon On Nov 4, 2020 Kathleen Flaherty (Dramaturg Emeritus/Project Dramaturg) talks with Davey Calderon (Dramaturg, Public Engagement) about how he keeps track of what his body does as he devises new work through exercises and improvisations. Critical Conversation...
Dialogue processes related to public STI policies are authentic exercises in interaction and conflict, just like those in democratic dialogue. There, each of the participants learns and internalises others’ arguments while maintaining their own identity and—from a communication perspective—they are pla...
Gap Fill Exercises Dialogues are perfect for gap-fill exercises. For example, take asample dialogueand delete keywords and phrases from the text. Choose a pair of students to read the dialogue to the rest of the class, then ask the other students to fill in the missing words and phrases....