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The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing
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Selfe, Cynthia L. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Rhetoric and composition's increasing attention to multimodal composing involves challenges that go beyond issues of access to digital technologies and electronic composing environments. As a specific case study, this article explores the history of aural composing modalities (speech, music, sound) and examines how they have been understood and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Semiotics, Learning Modalities, Aural Learning
Writing as a Mode of Learning
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Emig, Janet – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Describes how selected aspects of the writing process give writing its unique value for learning. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes, Writing (Composition)
Accessing Disability: A Nondisabled Student Works the Hyphen
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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
Bruner on Writing
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Smith, Myrna J. – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Discusses Jerome Bruner's theories regarding language as a tool for promoting cognitive growth, and shows how Bruner's ideas apply to the teaching of writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education