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Cassandra Woody – College Composition and Communication, 2020
This article argues that rhetoric-focused first-year composition curricula may effectively use feminist revisions to rhetoric by employing a method the author calls "procedural feminism," or the distillation of feminist rhetorical practices and theory within curricular development that does not make feminism a topic students will…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Feminism, Freshman Composition, Curriculum Design
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Jiang, Jialei; Vetter, Matthew A. – Composition Forum, 2020
Wikipedia's gender gaps are both well-established and well-challenged, and while Wikipedia-based assignments have become more common in composition, teacher-scholars have not fully explored the opportunities for feminist pedagogy offered by the encyclopedia. This article reports on a teacher research study designed to examine the efficacy of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Feminism, Rhetoric, Electronic Publishing
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Kashtan, Aaron – Composition Studies, 2015
Aaron Kashtan taught three sections of ENGL 1102, the second course in a mandatory first-year writing sequence with a heavy multimodal focus, during his first semester as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Literature, Media and Communication at Georgia Tech. The specific subject matter for these sections was handwriting…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Handwriting, Rhetoric, Layout (Publications)
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Lynch-Biniek, Amy – CEA Forum, 2009
Amy Lynch-Biniek begins by introducing popular yet controversial concepts presented in the Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's "They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing" (NY: Norton & Company, 2006). As stated in the book's introduction, the goal of Graff and Birkenstein's text is "to demystify academic…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, College English, Freshman Composition
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Hagaman, John A. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Argues that since students often articulate their meaning in speaking better than they can in writing, teachers should improve their awareness of speech and writing connections. Describes such relationships and suggests teaching strategies using speech to improve writing. Covers group composition, reading aloud, transcribing prewriting…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Freshman Composition, Higher Education