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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe: RSS feed| Weekly Email Newsletter | Moodle News Twitter Thanks for visiting! This secondary or beyond level English Composition course was developed by Jon Fila through a funding grant in Minnesota. The course is intended for hybrid delivery but covers some great topics and includes discussion forums, videos and resources to help students navigate such tasks and assignments as blogging, essay writing, proper research techniques on the web and a final research project.
All About Those Facebook 'Like' Scam Posts. You know what annoys me?
People who stand still on escalators. You know what REALLY annoys me? Facebook posts like this! Not a day goes by that I don’t login to see one of these posts. And they always seem to have a bazillion (no exaggeration) likes, comments or shares. Nearly 5000 people figured this would work. 5000 people figured typing a word into the comment field would make ‘something’ happen. Hint: Nothing happened.
Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis - Definitions and Examples of Figures of Speech. Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms - Grammar, Rhetoric, and Composition - Figures of Speech. An extensive glossary of grammatical and rhetorical terms used in the study of the English language.
Definitions are accompanied by examples and by cross-references to expanded discussions elsewhere on About.com Grammar & Composition. 100 Key Grammatical TermsDrawn from our extensive Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms, this collection provides a quick review of the basic terminology used in the study of traditional English grammar. For a more detailed examination of the word forms and sentence structures introduced here, click on any of the terms to visit a glossary page, where you will... Language Lessons From "The Simpsons"Can wisecracks from the likes of Sideshow Bob, Krusty the Clown, and Linguo the Grammar Robot endure alongside passages from Shakespeare, Twain, and Churchill? Probably not. What Is a Ghost Word? " SAT - College Board - The Most Widely Used College Admission Exam.
Teaching English using iPads – Day 2 by @InstTechTalk. This is the 2nd post in a series of posts pertaining to how I am teaching Summer School English using 1:1 iPads.
See Day 1 to start from the beginning. Our day started with all of our students being kicked off of the wireless network. Great! Luckily, we have an awesome IT team that was able to diagnose the issue and fix it within 10 minutes. Saucy means. Liquid means. Free Language Stuff. CUNY Games Network. Created by Francesco Crocco This is a cooperative learning game that may be played verbally or in writing.
Objectives 1) The point of this game is to cooperatively build an idea that involves memory recall, argumentation, and applied learning. 2) The game also teaches players how to write a successful paragraph by giving each player a different role to play that corresponds to the rhetorical elements of a paragraph. Setup 1) Assign a question or topic, or let the students choose one. 2) Make teams of four. 3) Assign each player a different role: ➢ Start: One person starts the process by stating or writing a main idea related to the topic. 4) Play it again with a different topic. If you like, add the element of speed by putting two teams in competition with each other.
Composition, game, writing. It’s All in the Details: Connecting Your Supports to Your Topics. Seeing the Process for the Trees: Process Writing and Play. First of all, games are packages of images, rules, and movable cardboard parts.
This makes educational games, of course, a technology, but also a type of multimodal pedagogy. Most instructors already perceive the value in bringing at least some multimodal pedagogy into their classrooms, given that visual media surrounds their students, and students should reflect upon it. According to Selfe and Takayoshi (2008), instructors also desire to use multimodal pedagogy because they believe students are able to reason and communicate effectively in such spaces (such as blogs and social networks), and these spaces can make writing and reasoning instruction more relevant to them (p. 3-5).
Not only are games already used in writing classrooms, but the collection of teaching principles that make up the mechanics of game play were complex enough to warrant educational theorists creating a new field called “game-based learning.” What makes a student-controlled space “playful”? Persuasive Techniques in Advertising. MentorMob - Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love - MentorMob. Rhetoric and Composition. Rhetoric and Composition/Rhetorical Analysis. Overview of Rhetorical Analysis[edit] A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS REFERS TO THE PROCESS OF ANALYZING A TEXT, GIVEN SOURCE OR ARTIFACT.
The text, source, or artifact may be in written form or in some different sort of communication. The goal of a rhetorical analysis is to take into consideration the purpose, audience, genre, stance, and media/design of the given rhetorical situation. In other words, the analysis explores not only what everything means in the given source (content), but also why the author wrote about it (the purpose), who the author is (background), how the piece was organized (structure), where and/or when it was published (forum), and the intended message conveyed to the audience (topic).
Readings on Rhetoric and Style - Classic Essays and Lectures on Rhetoric and English Prose Style. A collection of essays and lectures on rhetoric and English prose style by Jonathan Swift, H.L.
Mencken, William Hazlitt, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. Effective Rhetorical Strategies of Repetition. Question Care to know how to bore your readers to tears?
Answer Repeat yourself. Carelessly, excessively, needlessly, endlessly, repeat yourself. (That tedious strategy is called battology.) Teaching bias w/ the Simpsons. American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States. Rhetorical question - definition and examples of rhetorical questions. Definition: A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
The answer may be obvious or immediately provided by the questioner. A rhetorical question can be "an effective persuasive device, subtly influencing the kind of response one wants to get from an audience" (Edward P.J. Corbett). See Examples and Observations, below. Rhetoric - definition and examples of rhetoric. Definition: The study and practice of effective communication.The study of the effects of texts on audiences. The art of persuasion. What Is Rhetoric? Rhetoric has many definitions, and in today's society it can have negative connotations. That is why it may be confusing to you when you see that your English class is called "Composition and Rhetoric" in high school or college. Rhetoric can refer to exaggerated or inflated talk, much like that which we hear in political speeches. That is because rhetoric refers to the art of persuasion through carefully crafted words.
Rhetoric can be used as a pejorative term because it suggests that the speaker (or writer) is using words falsely, instead of using "plain talk" to convey something. On the other hand, crafted words don't have to be false words. Examples of Rhetorical Devices in Famous Speeches. Alphabetically, by device: Alliteration/Assonance “Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, ‘Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy.’”
-Ronald Reagan- The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address Former President Reagan uses alliteration to highlight the spirit of the seven that died on the “Challenger”. Classical rhetoric - definition and examples of classical rhetoric. Definition: The practice and teaching of rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome from roughly the fifth century B.C. to the early Middle Ages. Though rhetorical studies began in Greece in the fifth century B.C., the practice of rhetoric began much earlier with the emergence of Homo sapiens.
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices. Robert A. Harris Version Date: January 19, 2013 This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, (including rhetorical tropes and rhetorical figures) all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing. Note: This book was written in 1980, with some changes since. The devices presented are not in alphabetical order. To go directly to the discussion of a particular device, click on the name below. Visual Rhetoric/Examples And Analysis Of Visual Literature. When thinking about literacy, images and graphics are not usually the first things that come to a person's mind—usually, the word is used to describe written literacy, or the ability to read and write.
What Are the Three Branches of Rhetoric? - Classical Rhetoric - Aristotle.