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Cox, Anicca – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Via interview data focused on instructor practices and values, this study sought to describe some of what performing and visual arts instructors do at the university level to effectively teach disciplinary values through writing. The study's research goals explored how relationships to writing process in visual and performing arts support…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Theater Arts, Visual Arts, College Students
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Kumar, Rita; Refaei, Brenda – College Teaching, 2013
We used Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as a new pedagogy in an intermediate composition course. Our course design was based in constructivist pedagogical practices, which suggest that knowledge is co-created through social interactions. Although professors have much to offer students, students can also learn important lessons through interactions…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Discourse Communities, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Rivers, Nathaniel A.; Weber, Ryan P. – College Composition and Communication, 2011
Public rhetoric pedagogy can benefit from an ecological perspective that sees change as advocated not through a single document but through multiple mundane and monumental texts. This article summarizes various approaches to rhetorical ecology, offers an ecological read of the Montgomery bus boycotts, and concludes with pedagogical insights on a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Rhetoric, Audiences, Activism
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Dong, Ting; Anderson, Richard C.; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Wu, Xiaoying – International Journal of Educational Research, 2009
Is it feasible to hold concurrent, small-group, peer-managed discussions in large elementary school classes? We sought an initial answer to this question in a fifth-grade class in Hefei, China. The 52 students in the class were divided into seven small groups. The seven groups held four simultaneous discussions without immediate supervision or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Discussion Groups
Fosen, Chris – 2000
All styles of genre research share an attention to particular features of texts in use. The question is, however, how to teach genre. This paper first reviews what seem to be two opposed theories of teaching genre. After arguing that to differing extents both theories rely upon a transmission model of teaching, the paper then discusses attempts to…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Internship Programs
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Porter, James E. – Rhetoric Review, 1986
Demonstrates the significance of intertextuality theory to rhetoric by explaining intertextuality, its connection to the notion of "discourse community," and its pedagogical implications for composition. (FL)
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Integrated Activities
McCormack, Rob – 2001
Contemporary understandings and practices of adult literacy and adult basic education need to reestablish a substantial connection with ancient rhetoric as at once a political tradition, a culture of language use, a storehouse of metalanguage, and as an ensemble of pedagogic strategies and exercises. Developed in ancient Greece, rhetoric was for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Discourse Communities, Educational History