Well this particular course is a management communications class. It really is an impossible task of teaching them proper english/grammar, persuasion, formatting, and integrating research all in eleven weeks. But this last set of essays left me with three primary focuses for our next session, two of which could be combined with this video as an exercise prompt: 1) Getting to the why and so what? and 2) Editing out unnecessary words. The students have the
idea of persuasion in their mind but are only translating that into words such as
must or
urgency. To which I continuously find myself marking up their papers with WHY or SO WHAT.
I'm thinking that the video would be a wonderful educational tool for opening their eyes to the world of possibilities of persuasive writing AND that a powerful message can be written on a small cardboard box. All I have to do between now and Tuesday night is think of a different message for them to re-write for practice.
Thank you so much for priming my creativity pump that I was sure had dried up!
