Trigger Warnings and a Pedagogy of Trust
Morgan Read-Davidson | Chapman University As the director of both the creative writing and rhetoric and composition programs at Chapman University, a mid-sized private university serving 150+ majors as well as 1000+ general education students, it has now become a common and expected occurrence to have both students and contingent faculty come to my office…
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Beyond “True” and “False”: Teaching Students to Read the News Critically
Jennifer Noji | University of California, Los Angeles I grew up at the turn of the century in a time when most people still believed that reading the news meant learning about the world. Since I was young, my parents constantly urged me, “Watch the news, and open your eyes!” They insisted that reading the…
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Trite as It Sounds, Writing for the Public Means Practicing What We Preach
Ryan Skinnell Full disclosure: my essay is not about failure (this one by Annie Halseth is). It is, rather, about how rhetoric and composition specialists can learn to write for public and/or non-specialist audiences…
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FEN Blog Call for Submissions: Fake or fact? Teaching Writing in the Misinformation Age
In his Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition, Bruce McComiskey asserts, ‘The fact is, rhetoric and composition have had the tools to combat post-truth rhetoric for years, and we, as a community of scholars and teachers, need to double-down on those tools’ (38). Living in the age of misinformation and fake news has put writing teachers in…
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Looking Ahead: FEN Blog’s New Editors Talk Year Two
Jada Patchigondla and Ben Hojem are the incoming editors of the FEN Blog taking on the role from the previous editors, Lauren Fusilier and Megan Von Bergen. What we learned from Lauren and Megan’s time with FEN Blog is the prevalent topics…
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Writers Learning with Their Elders
Gaby Bedetti and Lindsey Danielle Horn During the 2020 pandemic, students at my university collected memories remotely at a senior living community. The intergenerational collaboration gave voice to the elders by eliciting, recording, transcribing, editing, and submitting the stories for publication.
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