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Tag Archives: multiple discourses

Jamila Lyiscott: “3 Ways to Speak English”

February 23, 2023

Here is a downloadable PDF of Jamila Lyiscott’s “3 Ways to Speak English” if you’d like to read the text or share it with your students. Jamila Lyiscott’s spoken-word essay, “3 Ways to Speak English,” is a powerful reclamation of the Continue reading →

Posted in Readings | Tagged multiple discourses

Informal writing: Annotation exercise

December 9, 2019

The following writing exercise challenges students to find an example of experimental/innovative language use they are familiar with. This can be a poem or song lyric, anything. They then annotate it with commentary informed by class discussions and readings and Continue reading →

Posted in Informal Writing | Tagged annotation, digital rhetoric, multiple discourses

“What is Literacy” by James Paul Gee: Helping students grasp “discourse”

December 9, 2019

This article is an introduction to the relationship between discourse, literacy, identity, and privilege. It’s useful for instructors to be familiar with as Gee’s discussion suggests why identifying and moving between “multiple discourses” is so prominent in our learning outcomes Continue reading →

Posted in Readings | Tagged literacy, multiple discourses

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