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Showcase of Student Writing: Faculty Resources


This page is dedicated to resources for FYC instructors and graduate assistants who want their students to participate in the SSW. Below you will find resources from other institutions about visual rhetoric, assignments designed by NIU staff, and other web sources.
We welcome additional resources or suggested changes to existing material.

Showcase Assignments

  • Showcase Group Assignment, Kummerer PDF
  • Showcase Prompt, Anonymous PDF
  • Students who aren't presenting can still attend the Showcase and participate. Here’s an assignment to evaluate the presentations they see, Marquis. PDF
  • A prompt for ENGL 103 students who want to participate in the Showcase, Marquis PDF

Visual Rhetoric/Analysis Assignments

  • The Dumbest Generation Research Project, Blankenship PDF
  • An Inconvenient Truth Analysis, Anonymous PDF 
  • Problem Solution Visual Rhetoric Project, Greenwood PDF
  • Visual Research Assignment, Tanglen at University of Arizona PDF

Group Arrangements

  • Some instructors have had success assigning groups based on how well their students are doing in the class. They often group their best students together and their worst students together.
  • Arrange student groups by their skill sets, Anonymous PDF 
  • Arrange student groups by the people they want to work with, Anonymous PDF 

Evaluation and Judging

  • Rubric for grading the showcases, which could be modified and shared with your students, Marquis. PDF
  • The rubric used by Showcase judges PDF 

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