Embrace pedagogical strategies that emphasize openness rather than closure and posit change as the norm¶

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Description¶

Because dialogism treats flux as the natural order of the rhetorical situation, the paper recommends embracing pedagogical strategies which emphasize openness, rather than closure, and which posit change as the norm. The author illustrates with restoring the ratios to Burke's Pentad, even though they admittedly complicate things for teachers and students.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Acceptance that the rhetorical situation is in relentless change rather than static

Constraints¶

• Resisting closure is difficult for teachers accustomed to static rhetorical elements

Target Learners¶

• college composition students

Target Learning Goals¶

• appreciating the composing process as continuously changing

Affordances¶

• Dialogism Intertextuality Utterance Context

Related Strategies¶

• Use brainstorming questions that probe a subject's social life and prior discursive handling

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Ewald, Helen Rothschild. (1990). Mikhail Bakhtin and "Expressive Discourse." Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED318031