Clare
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Doctoral Candidate
Rhetoric and Composition Wayne State University |
Welcome!
This is a digital archive of my teaching and learning as a graduate student in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. You can find my curriculum vitae, teaching philosophy, links to websites for courses I've designed and taught, links to websites I've created in composition theory courses, as well as teacher evaluations. Use the links in the upper right-hand corner to navigate through the archive.
Armed with what Amy Devitt calls “genre awareness,” a student may be able to improve the rhetorical effectiveness of their own work within that genre, as well as address the social and ideological contexts that shape the genre. Emphasis on teaching genre awareness can aid students in developing critical distance from a genre which can consequently encourage “enlightened participation” in the workings of a genre (Devitt 2009). Genre awareness can lead to a disruption or change in genre activity systems, or what Charles Bazerman calls “textual mischief.” However, the act of textual mischief can also lead to “social creativity in making new things happen in new ways (Bazerman 2004). |