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Tedrow, Mary K. – Inquiry, 2020
The initial composition course in the community college has the potential to be a transformative space for the identity formation of adult learners towards the linguistic signifier of "scholar." Freshman students of variable ages enter a new culture which demands the negotiation of an alternative academic language, an adaptation to the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Community Colleges, Self Concept
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Welch, Kristen; Lee, Nicholas; Shuman, Dustin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
An emphasis on visual rhetoric can be incorporated into a variety of classrooms. This article illustrates teaching visual rhetoric to first-year composition students via interpretation and analysis through a trip to a local art museum for the first essay assignment and through an exploration of photography for the second essay assignment. In the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Rhetoric, Essays, Museums