Research & Information Literacy

AI-Intensive Mind Mapping

This activity introduces mind mapping, a practice in which students explore and develop their research topic and determine its core concepts. As students explore, the instructor provides instruction to help students identify questions by type and to search thoughtfully and strategically for sources from contextual background information to academic scholarship. This activity may be used […]

AI Decision Infographic

Consider sharing the following infographic with students near the beginning of the semester, and perhaps returning to it for some focused reflection, when discussing the uses of Gen AI. Download a .pdf version of the infographic (text-accessible version below) for use with your students. Before you use an AI tool, press “pause” and consider: Personal […]

Forming Research Questions (AI-Assisted)

Developing a research question for a semester-long project–such as those required in WR 151, WR 152, or WR 153–is a challenging process. The strategies outlined below help students use AI tools to focus in on a question that is meaningful for them and appropriate for their project. Where necessary, feel free to replace the examples […]

Exploring the Scholarly Territory Using Library Resources

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]

WR 152 Additional Ideas and Supplemental Resources

In WR 152, students will study and compose digital multimodal or non-linguistic texts, such as movies, posters, podcasts throughout the semester. While the type of multimodal/non-linguistic text may vary from one section to another, the signature assignment of WR 152 is a remediation of the student’s academic research paper (usually 8-10 pages in length) into […]

Use a Text as a Theory Source

The goal of this exercise is to teach students how to use theory sources to complicate and deepen their claims. Start by reviewing a sample paragraph that draws on a theory source in the service of making a claim about an exhibit source. Then, have students create their own paragraph in small groups. Because this […]

The Scope of Research Questions & Conversations

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]

The Early Stages of Research

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]

Style & Genre

Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. WR 15x asks students to communicate about the same research project in two different genres, offering them the opportunity to explore how “good writing” […]