Headphones, Inc., letterhead to encourage thinking of the company as real.

This activity is designed to help students think critically about the different ways of delivering an oral presentation. The goal is to prepare them for their final presentations.

In this in-class activity, I use a video from the hit sit-com "The Office" to show how encountering a new genre in the workplace can be an intimidating experience. This activity engages students with genre issues in preparation for the memo assignment.

This is a pre-discussion activity that allows students to assert confidence about readings and also admit confusions in a safe, conversational environment.

Students learn basic design and delivery with PowerPoint

This activity using “merge documents” function in Microsoft Word helps students and instructors to easily see the changes made in the revision process for the final draft or portfolio.

This activity is used to help students with sentence-level editing. The students have 20 min. to find all the punctuation problems on the handout.