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Collision Course: Using Visual Art and Poetry as Composition Pedagogy

By Caroline Young March 17, 2017 March 31, 2017 Arts Initiatives, Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Community, Digital Pedagogy, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching, Tools & Methods

Last fall, I led students through a writing and communication course titled “One World is Not Enough.” This class investigated cultural values and ideologies as exhibited in the narratives that societies construct and consume. The course focused on two contemporary novels, Stephen Graham Jones’s Ledfeather and Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on… Continue reading

The V in WOVEN: Student Posters and the Rhetoric of Waste

By Iuliu Ratiu December 1, 2013 February 4, 2014 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Feature

In this post, I’d like to write about student posters and start/continue a conversation about the importance of the V in WOVEN. The Rhetoric of Waste and Sustainability: Teaching writing at Georgia Tech, an institution that prides itself with training problem-solvers, I invite my students to use multimodal communication as… Continue reading