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By Katt on Mar 28, 2008 in My dissertation, Research Endeavors | 0 Comments
I have said multiple times and to multiple people that I want to write my dissertation on the use of social media in education. The past few weeks may have changed all of that in a big way. Before I get to the core of this post, I want to take a few minutes and [...]
By Katt on Oct 22, 2007 in Recommended Reading | 2 Comments
Goodfellow, Robin: Online Literacies and Learning: Operational, Cultural and Critical Dimensions. Language and Education 18.5 (2004): 379-399.
In “Online Literacies and Learning,” Robin Goodfellow argues that online environments provide immense ways of improving the social literacies of todays students and examines a manner of research which explores the variation in relationships between teacher and student both [...]
By Katt on Aug 11, 2007 in Blogroll, Pedagogy, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
Focus of the Lessons–Style
kinds of style
grand style
smooth and ornate arrangements of impressive words
middle style
lower yet not the lowest and most colloquial class of words
plain style
brought down to the most current idiom of standard speech
Virtues of Speech
Correctness
Quality of style by which one speaks or writes [...]
By Katt on Aug 9, 2007 in Blogroll, First Year Composition (FYC), Pedagogy, Rhetoric | 1 Comment
So…I’m going to divide this post into two general parts:
Rhetoric in secondary composition education
Rhetoric in post-secondary composition education
Within each of those divisions, I will focus on four specific points
Facets of rhetoric that should be taught (rhetorical concepts)
Why it would be taught at this level
Benefit to the student if this material was taught at this level
Benefit [...]
By Katt on Jul 30, 2007 in Basic Writing, Blogroll, Definitions (Technology and Rhetoric Oriented), First Year Composition (FYC), Rhetoric | 0 Comments
That last entry is likely a bit confusing if you have no idea what a progymnasmata is. Now, generally, I would just say to you intelligent readers “more information on the progymnasmata is at the BYU Pedagogy page. However, since I am planning on including several more entries on this topic in the next [...]
