Empower students to take ownership of their reading and learning with "Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives." In this comprehensive guide, the authors explore the relationship between text, learner, and learning through discussion and rhetorical writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Prompt students to become the…

Presents a course design for English 3310, a three-credit composition course offered to advanced writing majors and non-majors at the University of Florida. Describes the section subtitled "Rhetoric and Environment" that was taught in conjunction with the development of University of Florida's College of Natural Resources and…

Argues that two current receptions of Plato's rhetorical theory that either (1) leave him out, or (2) claim he rejected rhetoric, have serious consequences for contemporary rhetoric and composition studies. Discusses critics who support a third position and claims this position reconnects rhetoric with thinking rather than mere formulizing. (NH)

Argues that generative rhetoric can lead technical writing students to produce more effective and better developed business reports. (TJ)

Proposes a way of looking at the process of expository prose--in the nonfiction texts used in composition courses--which students can then adapt, first to become aware of their own composing processes, and then to experiment with them. (EL)

Composition instructors need to emphasize to their students that persuasion is not always announced--it can be forcefully present in so-called "objective" forms of discourse like textbooks and news. News photographs can be successfully used in the composition classroom as a unit of study in visual rhetoric to introduce students to the…

Offers a list of practical hints about how to survive and prosper as writing teachers offered to young women and men who hope to teach writing in middle and secondary schools, two-year colleges, and colleges and universities. (NH)

Reviews the objectives of composition within the total English as a second language curriculum. The limitations of popular instructional methods are discussed and the introduction of controlled paragraph rhetoric is suggested. (CFM)