Teaching Composition (Fall 08)

As I mentioned in class yesterday (and thanks to Jason for reminding me to post it!), the article by Jody Shipka in Dec 2005 issue of College Composition and Communication, “A Multimodal, Task-Based Framework for Composition,” might be useful for those of you working on the radical revision assignments for your 101 classes. In that article, she offers ways that students can take charge of their own rhetorical-based writing instruction by “engineering” artifacts that re-envision one text into another form/genre/media/audience, etc. She relates the outcomes of these student compositions to the WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition, so that you will also leave this article understanding how to apply rhetorical, critical, functional and other literacy practices in assessing your students’ nontraditional work. Jody’s a mover and shaker in comp studies (in cat-eye glasses, to boot), and writes smartly about her research in this area. I hope you find her work useful, and if you’d like related articles to this one, just holler

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