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Item Active Learning Revision Clinics for the Intensive-Writing Classroom(2019) Cattani, Dana; Rodak, MirandaThis instructor’s guide provides educators with a series of active-learning-based lesson plans designed to teach concrete revision strategies. These lessons focus on empowering students to become autonomous editors of their own and others’ writing by addressing their skill gaps in identifying weak, underperforming writing and revising it for strategic impact. The lesson plans, templates, and accompanying notes we provide are rooted in active learning pedagogy – the philosophy that students acquire skills more effectively when they engage directly in the learning process in a hands-on way.Item For Students, By Students: Ignite Peer-to-Peer Content Development (Exam Review Assignment Sheet)(2019-10-24) Cattani, Dana; Rodak, MirandaThis assignment, designed for undergraduates, helps students synthesize and teach key writing concepts to their peers. Based on active learning pedagogy, it borrows from PechaKucha speed presentations as well as The New York Times' Vocabulary Video contest.Item For Students, By Students: Ignite Peer-to-Peer Content Development (Instructor Notes)(2019-10-24) Cattani, Dana; Rodak, MirandaThese Instructor Notes outline a possible lesson plan for the Review Video Slides.Item For Students, By Students: Ignite Peer-to-Peer Content Development (Video)(2020) Cattani, Dana; Rodak, MirandaThis brief video presentation outlines the rationale for the "For Students, By Students" Exam Review Assignment, explains the process, and provides examples of student work.Item Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative(2022) Rodak, Miranda; Storey, BenProse Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative is an open-access textbook that introduces readers of fiction to its underlying semiotic principles. The text was originally published by Ignasi Ribo for students in a 300-level literature course. As an open access text, it has been adapted into this modified version by two additional authors, Miranda Rodak and Ben Storey, to address 200-level literature students entering the "Introduction to Fiction" course at Indiana University.