http://engl516.stevendkrause.com/2010/03/10/discussing-jackson-and-wallins-rediscovering-the-back-and-forthness-of-rhetoric-in-the-age-of-youtube/ Prof. Steven D. Krause | Eastern Michigan University Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://engl516.stevendkrause.com/2010/03/10/discussing-jackson-and-wallins-rediscovering-the-back-and-forthness-of-rhetoric-in-the-age-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-2480 Brian R. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:12:54 +0000 http://engl516.stevendkrause.com/?p=728#comment-2480 Great point Gloria; the issue of teaching students calmer ways to react to video speaks directly, I think, to developing critical reading skills not just of text, but over a range of different modalities. If we can give students tools for analyzing different modes of rhetoric that occur online, it might go some way towards those students thinking more critically about the things they see on YouTube and other spaces online that contain multimodal texts. Great point Gloria; the issue of teaching students calmer ways to react to video speaks directly, I think, to developing critical reading skills not just of text, but over a range of different modalities. If we can give students tools for analyzing different modes of rhetoric that occur online, it might go some way towards those students thinking more critically about the things they see on YouTube and other spaces online that contain multimodal texts.

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