Moving Beyond the Rhetorical Arts: Refiguring Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
Christopher Foreé, TCU
“Reading in the Public Sphere: Reimaging the Content and Context of Comp Classrooms”
CF:
Habermas described public sphere as public space where private discuss in public…
Rhetorical public spheres as described by Gerard Houser…
Active members forming around issues.
Rhetorical public spheres digital and physical spaces. Students participating in and reading these spheres.
What and how students read has resurgence?
Pedagogy January 2016 looks at reading and transfer
Corillo (in Pedagogy)
Mindful reading.
Students create mindful reading—thinking about how they are reading.
Metacognition
Create mindful readers, rather than mindful reading.
Examine ideas.
Teach HOW to read in order to make reading visible.
Salvatore
Invisibleness of reading in classroom.
Reading as a tool to differentiate between composition and literature
Nancy Atwell
Simplest and most powerful innovation = giving choice and option
Assigning readings…
Reading difficult texts = cohesion
Coherence = connect the reading networks of information outside the text
Reading and Writing for Student Literacy
Critical reading, writing, and thinking skills needed to fend off and be able to understand inundation of public sphere rhetoric
Reading as a way of making meaning.
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My experience is that students can come up with arguments in the news. Real world examples.
They avoid superficial. Discuss HOW they are being used and how they are effective.
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Expand the aims “Expanding the Aims of Pedagogic… Writing Letters to the Editor”
… situational binary of privileging “real world” over classroom space
public shares civic literacy
nuanced form of civic participation
shift reading to the public sphere
don’t look at academic writing only
Look at other kinds of writing.
Read the public sphere.
What could I have the students do to encourage looking at public reading without allowing them to use those as sources?
Restore idea of public intellectual.
What do students read and how do they read it?
Notes from CCTE 2016: Rhetoric 4