Category: Disciplinary Origins (Week 1)
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Exploring the Roots and Evolution of Composition and Rhetoric Studies in America
The study of rhetoric has been shaped by the influence of English departments, textbook development, and the focus on writing In the disciplines.
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“Shaping Tools: Textbooks and the Development of Composition-Rhetoric”
Robert Conners’ “Shaping Tools: Textbook and the Development of Composition Rhetoric” discusses teaching writing and how it has evolved.
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ChatGPT & Composition classes
The futility of all potential solutions to the teaching styles of composition classes with the emergence of AI and ChatGPT.
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Blog Post 1
Goes into detail about the way the stranglehold that the current writing teachings has in place for our students. The teaching of rhetoric.
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Writing the Curriculum by the Block
Writing the Curriculum by the block acknowledges the differing realities of English-speakers while tackling the issues of setting up a working curriculum.
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Rhetoric (Can’t Raise the Dead)
Rhetoric as a concept is itself fluid, having a definition that has changed innumerable times over the course of history.
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Disciplinary Origins
Where does writing instruction come from? What are the origins of today’s writing-studies courses? Why do we require these classes?