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The Rogue Rhetorician is returning to the classroom<\/strong>. Yes,\u00a0I gave up the academic job search\u2026 and was offered a position.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been away for a couple of weeks, traveling with my children from Western PA to the California Coast. While we were in California, I received and accepted a full-time teaching post at a state university near our home in Pennsylvania. Classes start later this month.<\/p>\n

The fall semester includes four sections of \u201cCritical Writing\u201d which is another name for college composition<\/strong><\/em>. I\u2019m not a fan of how most composition courses are structured (or taught) so this will be something of a challenge as I attempt to prove my approach to teaching academic writing works well.<\/p>\n

I am not going to change what I believe is a better approach to academic writing instruction.\u00a0<\/em>Hopefully, that is why I was hired.<\/p>\n

When I was a graduate student, we were given a syllabus with four essays, starting with a personal narrative. I\u2019m not going to follow that approach.<\/p>\n

My writing course will be grounded in rhetoric, the\u00a0traditional rhetoric and\u00a0<\/em>recent rhetorical scholarship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am not going to focus on grammar or formatting because I can instead expose students to tools and resources that help with APA and MLA formatting, along with other style arbiters.\u00a0Why have students memorize style guides that change when I can instead point them to websites and applications that are always up-to-date? Let\u2019s be honest as teachers: we look up formatting and style rules because assuming we know them is risky<\/strong>. Very few scholars I know have memorized style guides and those that have done so study how the guides evolve.\u00a0My students will be given templates and links to training resources.<\/p>\n

College writing courses \u2014 all writing courses \u2014 should focus on the ideas and creative expression. Yes, we can tell students they are judged by the formatting of a document, and we can insist they use proper formatting via software tools, but we do not need to distract them from learning how to analyze arguments.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to teach visual rhetoric and the economic nature of rhetoric.<\/p>\n

It is good to be back on track, though it was entirely unexpected after I had given up the academic job search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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