Professor
Dominic DelliCarpini shares two of his courses that invite students to consider the need for a "National Conversation on Writing."
The first course is titled "Teaching Writing in the 21st Century"
Course Description: What it means, in the 21st century, to “teach writing” is a matter of some debate. Should writing teachers stick to teaching students how to do academic, “school” writing? Or should we concentrate on the genres necessary to compose as active citizens? And should we shift our attention toward including technologically-enhanced and multi-modal-genres within our purview?
The link below leads to the “overview of the research sequence,” which demonstrates an approach to “teaching writing” that takes into account all of the questions posed in the course description above. It is meant to help students see the intersections between their work as academics, their role as citizens with the special expertise supplied by a college education, and the need to compose in multiple modes in order to meet the needs of a 21st Century Audience.
The assignment above engaged students in extensive research and generated several different kinds of writing, including an academic piece and a multi-modal composition for a public audience. The links below lead to examples of the public, multi-modal genres that students produced based upon their previous academic papers. These examples demonstrate how the students went public with the learning they did in an academic writing course, and so transferred their school learning into civic activism. Perhaps more important, these examples show the multiple ways that individuals use writing.
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- Hope for America [PDF]
- A graphic essay exploring the meaning of the Enron scandal
- Student's reflection [MSWord]
- Cosmopolitan
Cover [PDF]
- Discusses
how a cover from the magazine Cosmopolitan uses subliminal messages for
women through the media. Remixes visual elements from the genre to foreground
these messages. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by
revealing the role of critical thinking in negotiating everyday texts in order
to push against marginalizing influences.
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- Your
Child and His Name [DOC]
- Cover w/ Photo [DOC]
- Student's reflection [DOC]
- An assignment written as a magazine article that was designed for prospective
parents deciding the name of their child, this article pleads to parents to
name their children with what might be considered to be more traditional names.
- The Migratory Patterns of the Narwhal Fruit Fly
- Student's reflection
- Dr. Delli Carpini's student chose to create a graphic narrative in order to address adolescent students in an attempt to establish awareness for the protection of the Earth's ecological system. In the cover memo, the creator specifies details that were designed to make a specific impact on the audience and the rhetorical effects of the graphic narrative
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