Building on a Rhetorical Foundation through D-I-Y (Do-It-Yourself) Digital Video in the Comp Classroom

Crystal VanKootenUniversity of Michiganvankootc@umich.edu

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The over-arching goal of the video unit: meta-awareness about composition, rhetorical choices, and multiple modes of expression.

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drawn from Wardle (2007):

Meta-awareness about writing, language, and rhetorical strategies “may be the most important ability ourcourses can cultivate.”

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The over-arching goal of the video unit: meta-awareness about composition, rhetorical choices, and multiple modes of expression.

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Dewey: the “organic connection between education and personal experience”

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New London Group: metalanguage as a language of reflective generalization that describes the form, content, and function of the discourses of practice —“a language for talking about images, texts and meaning-making interactions.”

Kathleen Blake Yancey: Reflection is “a dialectical process by which we develop and achieve, first, specific goals for learning; second, strategies for reaching those goals; and third, means of determining whether or not we have met those goals or other goals.”

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Examples:

• Learn to use iMovie to layer still images and audio. • Learn to use Windows MovieMaker to create a video that uses still and moving images that are labeled for reuse and modification under Creative Commons. • Learn to use iMovie to insert transitions between clips.

Setting goals to support the development of functional literacies

Setting goals to support the development of rhetorical literacies

• Convey the message of to (the audience) through the use of multiple modes of expression and combined appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos.

• Use lyrics, melody, and tempo in particular songs as musical rhetoric to draw upon the cultural associations of an audience member. • Use juxtaposition of images and song lyrics to advance the purpose of the video.

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Revising and Shifting Goals

Anne Frances Wysocki’s definition of new media:

“a definition that encourages us to stay alert to how and why we make these combinations of materials, not simply that we do it.”

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Thank you!Questions for further discussion:

1. What other instructional approaches can support students in the development of a meta-awareness about composition?

2. How can we construct prompts that guide students in making connections between modes, genres, and media?

Crystal VanKootenUniversity of Michiganvankootc@umich.edu