RHE 398T: Teaching First-Year Writing, Theory and Practice

The goal of 315 is to teach students the principles of rhetoric and writing through the lens of visual texts. To achieve that goal, each 315 will instruct students to:

- identify and analyze context
- identify a text’s purpose
- analyze the various ways a text appeals to its specific audience
- produce their own visual argumentation
- read and write well-researched, college-level papers

Textbooks

All sections of RHE 315 require a textbook and handbook. If you prefer to compile your own packet of readings, please email your list of proposed readings to the Associate Chair or bring it by Parlin 3 for departmental approval.

The following texts have been approved for use in RHE 315.

Visual Rhetoric Textbooks

- Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age,
John Ruskiewicz, Daniel Anderson, and Christy Friend
- Picturing Texts, Lester Faigley, Diane George, Anna Palcik and Cynthia Selfe
- Seeing and Writing, Donald and Christine McQuade

Handbooks (the following handbooks also provide tools and terms for rhetorical analysis)

- Brief Penguin Handbook, Faigley
- SF Express, Ruszkiewicz, Friend, and Hairston
- Easy Writer, Andrea Lusford

- Course Description
- Teacher Development and Marketability
- Course Paradigms