In one first-year composition class, stylistic analysis of a president's letter served critical pedagogy goals¶
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q1 i? After campus protests, students used Williams's ideas about language to critically analyze the style of President Garland's letter, examining word choice, imitating sentence structure, and translating his words into their own vernacular. → Pace 2001
q1 i? The author and students came to regard the teaching of style as complementary to the goals of critical pedagogy, a tool for investigating their own and others' writing practices. → Pace 2001
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Pace 2001¶
Pace, Tom. (2001). Composing and Community: The Teaching of Style as a Tool of Critical Pedagogy. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED451526
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A single-class case narrative: during a first-year composition course at Miami University, following a campus break-in and protests, students copied and imitated the president's word choice and sentence structure and some wrote papers analyzing his rhetorical position. The author explicitly notes this is one experience, not necessarily a pattern.
"By focusing on Garland's "style," my students and I began to regard the teaching of style as complimentary to the goals of critical pedagogy, something for writers to use as a tool to investigate critically their own writing practices and the practices of others."
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Related Claims¶
- Teaching style can be reclaimed as an effective tool for socially responsible rhetorical communication — a broader claim this one bears on
- More stylistic information processing makes individuals' viewpoints narrower and more rigid, reducing ability to adopt opposite styles — related
- Linguistic-level discourse analysis of students restating animation descriptions in their own words documents collaborative behavior and informs task redesign — related
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In one first-year composition class, stylistic analysis of a president's letter served critical pedagogy goals |
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