Rhetoric & Analysis
ANALYSIS
Analytical skills are what every professional and academic wants and requires yet it is often what they have the most difficulty explaining. ​ There is still a lot of debate as to whether analsysis and critical thinking can even be taught. However, I believe instructors can demonstrate them and provide spaces where students can practice and receive feedback to develope these skills.
Students should be asked to identify textual differences: paragraph length, citation style, vocabulary, sentence length, author information, etc to support their claim which one is scholarly.
Cup Round or Square (Tony Fisher)
Since international students are typically unfamiliar with the geography of LA, I often presented this and asked the class to describe each child's socioeconomic status. They were then asked to discuss how they could determine that from the images, which led to a discussion about what information their audiences might not know about the topics of their own essays.
TEXTS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS
THAT ALLOW DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
