Textual choices

Handouts. Sol Armoskaite. Overview: These exercises sharpen students’ awareness of clarity and precision in writing. The verbosity and vagueness worksheet helps students identify when language is inflated or imprecise and decide…

Handout. Katherine Schaefer. Adapted from work from Deb Rossen-Knill. Overview:  This handout describes a linguistic principle and a framework for analyzing information in a sentence.  Readers expect “given” information–information that…

In-class activity. Liz Tinelli. Overview: This small-group activity invites students to think carefully about how sentence-level choices (wording, tone, detail) change when writing for a specific audience and purpose. By…