Sunday, January 25, 2015

Teaching Genre Theory and Activity Theory

Check out ISU!!!

They're doing some cool stuff, including a journal of undergraduate writing:

Grassroots Writing Research Journal



Monday, January 5, 2015

Notes on a Rhetoric and Writing Minor Video project

Why pursue the Rhetoric and Writing minor at RIC?

1. Practice with writing, opportunities for individual and peer feedback, the chance to collaborate and to use technology to improve your writing

2. Exposure to more diverse kinds of writing (on the screen, in the workplace, in the public realm).

3. The chance to become a new and different kind of writer, to think about writing differently, to become more adaptable, flexible, insightful and reflective about yourself as a writer and heehaw writing works in the world.

What does the word RHETORIC mean and can that be tied into this?

If I Ever Decide I want to teach a literature class

A "transational approach" to teaching literature, forwarded by Louise Rosenblatt in Literature as Exploration.

Literature As Equipment for Living (Kenneth Burke)