Composition and Rhetoric II: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Strategies for Composition Skills
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The Daily Show and Colbert Report: The Need for Satire and Parody in Composition Classrooms. Sarah Antinora, University of California, Riverside
"Fake" news has a valid place in the composition classrooms. Parody teaches critical thinking and demonstrates how to use words to challenge and question, enabling our students to see the impact their writing can have on the world around them.
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Learning by Imitation: Pedagogical Implications in the Works of David Bartholomae. Sarah Gallup, Central Oregon Community College
This presentation will focus on the importance of imitation in a student’s writing while avoiding plagiarism and maintaining individuality. Research will be drawn in particular from the works of composition scholar David Bartholomae as well as the history of rhetoric.
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Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra, and the Modern Composition Classroom. Stephanie Kay, University of California, Riverside
This paper examines methods for teaching underlying structures of meaning and critical thinking skills, and constructing classrooms that reflect genuine domains of democratic, public space against the increasingly media saturated universe that our students currently inhabit.
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"Seeing Yourself in a Photograph for the First Time": Discomfort and Critical Thinking in the Basic Writing Classroom. Oceana Callum, Orange Coast College
This paper examines the ways in which, in socioeconomically, ethnically, and racially diverse basic writing classrooms at two-year colleges, assignments on "native language," ethnicity and race create "discomfort" and thus engender critical thinking.
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