Week 5: February 6

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February 6

Topic: Teaching Strategies

Read for Class:

  • Miller, c. R. (1984). Genre as social action. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 70, 151-167.
  • Miller, C. (2015). Genres as social action (1984), revisited 30 years later (2014). Letras & Letras, 31(3), n.p.
  • Genre summary of sorts from Genres across borders
  • Wolfe, J. (2009). How technical communication textbooks fail engineering students. Technical Communication Quarterly, 18(4), 351.
  • Morrison, R. (2017). Teaching toward the telos of critical thinking: Genre in business communication. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 80(4), 460-472.

Classroom Related

In class:

guest speaker: Meredith Singleton

      • discussion of textbook review as it relates to teaching strategies
      • discussion of readings
        • consider readings on strategies as compared to research you’ve read
      • outcomes
      • collaboration