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Comics in the Literature Classroom: How Multimodal Learning Can Create Better Citizens
No full textThis essay describes an adaptable, multimodal assignment in which students create a comic in lieu of a traditional essay or exam. I outline the theoretical and practical value of this assignment and provide a detailed description of its implementation in two different literature courses: an introduction to the major course and a course on literature of diverse cultures. Based on the research and my experience, I argue that this assignment increases student engagement and teaches crucial skills, such as critical thinking, textual analysis, and argumentation. I suggest that an assignment such as this, in which students not only read but also produce comics, enables them to develop multimodal literacies essential in the twenty-first century. Furthermore, it helps students develop the imagination, empathy, and creativity necessary to be productive citizens in our Republic of Opinion
Pedagogy Proceedings: Narrative Theory: A Bridge between Two Departmental Islands
No full textPresented at the 2017 CEA Conference in Hilton Head, SC, this essay offers an interdisciplinary approach to general education and graphic design through narrative theory
Building up Jerusalem in the Classroom: William Blake and Writing Pedagogy
No full textWilliam Blake’s poetry seeks to inspire readers to participate in the construction of an intellectual community that he calls “Jerusalem.” This article examines the strategies that Blake advocates in his long poems for fostering such a community, and it illustrates the utility of such approaches in the classroom. Closely reading passages from Blake’s epics, the article locates three pedagogical techniques that work especially well in writing and literature classes: guiding students in increasing the specificity of their thinking, modeling for them effective habits that they can adopt in their writing, and prompting students to escape their own subjective vantage point in order to engage in a dynamic exchange of ideas with others. Drawing on the author’s experience, the article explores the ways in which these approaches can be implemented. Such methods include assigning creative writing exercises, helping students refine generalities in their essays, using the very structure of classes to model effective thinking and writing, and facilitating one-on-one discussions between students based on the “minute particulars” of their research papers. Ultimately, the article suggests that aiding students to “converse together” as an intellectual community encourages the development of virtues that are vital to bringing Blake’s vision of a cooperative utopia increasingly into reality
Technical Writing and Literature in Dialogue in the Undergraduate English Classroom
No full textThis essay considers the value and challenges of teaching literature and technical and professional communication (TPC) in the same course. I argue that teaching literature alongside TPC provides a context for students to understand connections between the variety of courses offered in English departments. Such a course also presents students with an opportunity to develop an early interest in TPC that could lead them to take additional courses or perhaps explore a minor, major, or secondary major in TPC.
I review research on TPC pedagogy as well as scholarship on English departments\u27 curriculum in general. The essay then describes a proposed course for first-year students. Students study TPC and literary texts. The course has four units that highlight the ways these texts overlap, diverge, and connect
Introduction: The Production of Comic Books in a College Writing Class
No full textThis overview provides an introduction to the roundtable "The Production of Comic Books in a College Writing Class.
How a Comic Book Assignment Can Help Students Learn the Value of Research Evidence
No full textThis article addresses the ways that the production of comics by students in writing classes can help the students understand how research contributes to writing aptitude
Collapsing the Binary in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands
No full textThis paper describes how the author uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s _Borderlands_ in critical thinking class to address black-and-white opposition and the imperative of achieving a middle ground by collapsing the binary. Anzaldúa’s major images of binary opposition, the serpent and the eagle, represent faculties that must work together in _mestiza_ or Borderlands consciousness to form a new third thing that is greater than the sum of the parts. She becomes a Guadalupe figure who unites opposites in her person, though her project is slightly marred by the black-and-white thinking that she inveighs against
Ideas Worth Spreading?: TED’s Rhetorical Position in College Composition
No full textTED as a popular culture artifact has made its way into college writing classrooms as a method by which some writing teachers model research processes like brainstorming and idea formation. This microstudy includes interviews and survey results in which teachers at a small regional school verify their love for TED\u27s online videos. In examining TED\u27s rhetoric alongside the results of the interviews and surveys, I argue that certain texts like TED videos often present conflicting messages to young students struggling to find their voices
Pedagogy Proceedings: No Teacher is an Island: Strategies for Enacting Multimodal Pedagogies
No full textPresented at the 2017 CEA Conference in Hilton Head, SC, this essay addresses ways to include multimodal approaches to teaching