Introduces and develops understanding, for first year students, of composing and critiquing written and multimodal texts.
Subject Matter Experts:
Paul Ranieri, Ph.D.
Lesson 1
Composing, Play and Expression
- Learning as Play
- Joyful and Compelling Learning
- Intellectual Play
- Composing and Learning
- Composing as Living
Lesson 2
The Basics of Rhetoric
- Defining Rhetoric
- A Matrix of Discourse Types
- Ethos
- Pathos
- Logos
- Kairos
- The Role of Persuasion in Life
Lesson 3
Responding to Multimodal Texts
- Multimodal Expression
- Applying Rubrics to Single Mode and Multimodal Texts
- Planning and Purpose
- Assessing and Revising
Lesson 4
Ideas and Voice
- Expressing Voice
- Ideas and Invention
- Purpose and Structure
- The Demands of an Audience
- Voice and Character
Lesson 5
From Personal Ideas to Public Expression
- A Diagnostic Tool
- Composing as Choices
- The Evolution of a Text from the Personal to the Public
Lesson 6
Performance Development
- Composing as Performance
- Composing/Performing Processes
- Goals, Directions, and Plans
- Reflection and Revising
- Chunking
- Metacognition and Procedural Knowledge
Lesson 7
Style and Editing
- Guidelines for Clear, Direct, Concise Style
- Agent + Action
- Improving Flow
- Shape and Elegance
- Style and Democracy
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