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Angela Muir; Paula Mathieu – Composition Studies, 2022
This article argues that we are living in a climate where trauma is taxing students and teachers alike. In order to teach and learn in this moment, we recommend and explore a variety of contemplative practices to help teach awareness and kind attention. Some of these practices involve writing and others don't, as writing itself can be a source of…
Descriptors: Trauma, Trauma Informed Approach, Health, Well Being
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Marshall, Laura Hardin; Lynch, Paul – Composition Studies, 2020
The Writing Program (WP) at Saint Louis University has striven to create a course that draws on a richer disciplinary understanding of writing and rhetoric. The standard course structure, from which instructors are asked to fashion their own syllabi, asks students to pursue a scaffolded semester-long project. As they pursue the scaffolded…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
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Andersen, Rebekka – Composition Studies, 2016
In first-year writing (FYW), instructors want students to understand how reading texts in particular ways affects how and what they learn and, in turn, how and what they might communicate to their own readers. Because students tend to come to FYW predisposed to notice more visual aspects (e.g., headings, bulleted lists) than verbal aspects (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Rhetoric, Critical Thinking, Cues
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Sealey-Morris, Gabriel – Composition Studies, 2015
While comics have received widespread acceptance as a literary genre, instructors and scholars in Rhetoric and Composition have been slower to adopt comics, largely because of a lingering difficulty understanding how the characteristics of the form relate to our work in the classroom. Using as guides the "WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Classroom Environment
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Rosinski, Paula; Peeples, Tim – Composition Studies, 2012
Following a brief introduction to problem-based learning (PBL) as one type of highly-engaged pedagogy, this article examines how PBL activities in a first-year writing class and an upper-level professional writing and rhetoric class led students to develop rhetorical subjectivities. We conclude that highly engaged pedagogies, like PBL, that…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Praxis