Changing the Face of Service Learning in the Online Public Speaking Course: The Persuasive Community Advocacy Speech (Teaching Tip)
by Bettina Benoit Durant Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism, Georgia State University Goal of the Assignment: The goal of this persuasive speech assignment is to get students engaged and to provide students with the principles of...
Students Stretching Past Summary Toward Analysis: The APATSARC Drill in Composition
By Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu) For the last dozen years or so, I have been teaching something I call “The APATSARC Drill” in my composition classes. Students use it to do an analytical drill of a non-fiction text (usually a news column) we’ve read together,...
Ivan Ilyich and the Sophomore Survey
By Rick Diguette (rdiguette@gsu.edu) Sophomores who enroll in my world literature survey read major works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Deciding on which texts to assign, however, is always a daunting task. Developing a semester reading...
Watching before Writing: Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacy in the Composition Classroom
By Charles Fox (cfox4@gsu.edu) In his essay, “How to Teach Film Adaptations, and Why,” Thomas Leitch argues for restructuring English departments in a way that more accurately reflects our new vision of that which is literary. Whereas in a traditional English...Subscribe by Email
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