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Lü, Linqiong – English Language Teaching, 2018
Western teachers working in China often experience cultural conflicts arising from, for instance, the ways that Chinese students perceive face and express criticism. To better understand these face-concerned conflicts, this paper explores the role and significance of email for a group of Chinese students to communicate pedagogical criticism with…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Intercultural Communication, Criticism, Second Language Instruction
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Mendenhall, Annie S. – College English, 2011
This essay provides an account of The Ohio State University's (OSU) rhetoric department during the tenure of Joseph Villiers Denney, arguing that he appropriated and repurposed national trends in education and rhetoric in ways that complicate the narrative of rhetoric and composition's decline in the late nineteenth century. In this essay, the…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, College Faculty, Reputation, Writing (Composition)
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Ruecker, Todd – Composition Studies, 2011
English 1311: Expository English Composition is the first semester course in a two-semester first-year composition (FYC) sequence. Both ENG 1311 and its second-semester counterpart, ENG 1312, are required for all students unless they have transfer credit covering this requirement or place out of one or both of the courses via the College-Level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Higher Education
Foss, Karen A. – 1980
Three components seem central to the definition of a documentary film: (1) the filmmaker should seek to provide as valid a record as possible of the facts, (2) the filmmaker must not neglect artistry in the portrayal of reality, and (3) a persuasive purpose is inherent to the form. Thus, documentary film provides for the artistic portrayal of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Documentaries
LeFevre, Karen Burke – 1987
Working from both literary and composition theory, this book argues that American composition theory and pedagogy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is founded on the Platonic view that invention is a solitary act in which the individual, drawing upon innate knowledge and mental structures, searches for the truth, using introspective self…
Descriptors: Authors, Cognitive Processes, Cooperation, Curriculum Development
Bialostosky, Don – ADE Bulletin, 1993
Identifies the ideas of the good that organize the professional lives of English college faculty. Discusses how these ideas should help faculty to constitute their departments, colleagues, and students. Applies insights from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to departmental discussions. (HB)
Descriptors: College English, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Departments
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Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs – Communication Education, 1991
Argues for the inclusion of works by women in United States public address courses and as models in public speaking courses. Recommends several speeches by women that represent the diversity of America's cultural history and that articulate opposing views on critical national issues. (KEH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Media Selection
Waller, Gary F. – ADE Bulletin, 1986
Examines the typical curriculum in an English department and the place of literary and critical theory within it. (SRT)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Departments, Financial Support
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Neel, Jasper P. – Journal of General Education, 1984
Discusses the redesign of the sophomore literature course at Francis Marion University by an interdisciplinary team. Considers the three diverse epistemologies found in different disciplines, concluding that literary study is best pursued within the rhetorical tradition of analysis and disputation. (DMM)
Descriptors: College English, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Instruction
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Alley, Alvin D. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Creativity, Curriculum Development, English Instruction
Finkel, Candida – 1984
Rather than relegating Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to history of rhetoric courses, where it is regarded with only an antiquarian interest, it can be used as a practical text for introductory public speaking courses. The advantages would be threefold: (1) its emphasis is essentially on rhetoric as a speaking art rather than an art of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Higher Education
Long, Kaylene A.; Stroup, Karen Bruner – 1980
A competency based learning approach as applied to public address instructional development can help to achieve the following goals: (1) to enable students to grasp the history of the period under study, (2) to enable students to develop and apply rhetorical criticism skills, (3) to provide students with a course format of high interest value, (4)…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Sanders, Gerald H. – 1986
A survey of colleagues in the communication discipline sought to assess the future of rhetoric and public address as an integral part of curriculum and degree programs. A trend that appeared in the remarks was that scholars in the field of rhetoric have too long eschewed the broadening of the concept of rhetorical criticism. Rhetoric should be…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Courses, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Arlington County Public Schools, VA. – 1966
This cumulative writing program for grades 7-12 of the Arlington County Public Schools presents a basic philosophy of composition which assumes that the process of writing consists of "probing deeply into a subject, ordering thought, and placing those thoughts on paper in such a way as to assure meaning." Following the discussions of the three…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Descriptive Writing
Frazier, Alexander, Ed. – 1967
Fourteen papers collected under three headings--literature, language, and composition--consider what lies ahead in the teaching of elementary school English. Papers on literature cover the role of literature in elementary English programs (Alan S. Downer), the necessity for developing the student's imagination (James E. Miller, Jr.), the nature of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grammar
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