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Rowsell, Jennifer; Pahl, Kate – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their "habitus". It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Learning Modalities, Intermode Differences, Case Studies
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Price, Margaret – College Composition and Communication, 2007
This article challenges current assumptions about the teaching and assessment of critical thinking in the composition classroom, particularly the practice of measuring critical thinking through individual written texts. Drawing on a case study of a class that incorporated disability studies discourse, and applying discourse analysis to student…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Disabilities