Tag: rhetoric
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Transferable Skills vs. Student Interest
In increasing rigidity, Beaufort may be more effective at teaching transferable writing skills, but may also lose the interest of her students.
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Point A to Point B
This blog post discusses Beaufort’s revision process of a successful college composition class: what worked, and what didn’t.
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More Than XYZ
How do we get students from viewing writing as a “mysterious talent” to a “researchable activity”? Downs and Wardle help us out with this.
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week 7; historical approaches
Fulkerson and Berlin explore writing instruction, grading challenges, and the evolving role of rhetoric and its difficulties in education.
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Fulkerson/Berlin
This week we dive into our 4 philosophies of rhetoric. Berlin and Fulkerson discuss formalist, expressivists, mimetics and rhetorics
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Ideology and Rhetoric Liberation
To become free from degrading consciousness being able to fully liberate themselves in the classroom resisting vulnerability
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What Matters Most
Deciding how we assess writing can be difficult, but not impossible. Here, I establish where I think I fall, and what brings me to this point.
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week 1: disciplinary origins
A reflection on the exploration of the evolution of rhetoric, its key figures, its deep ties to politics and religion and how that impacts society today.
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Pettygogy: In Defense of Writing
Pedagogy has evolved — but for worse. A new era of education has emerged, and it is hurting students’ most fundamental skill — writing.
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Maker of Meaning
What really is a genre, and how do they help us understand what we are reading? Does this categorization make purpose more clear to readers and writers?