As I have been continuing to research for my paper, I have decided the best audience for my paper would probably be teachers in the secondary school setting. I want to show my English Teaching professors my ideas and ask them what they think about trying to apply this in real schools with real students.
As I have continued my research, I have tried to expand both the social networking and the traditional research components. I have found that not many teachers in the secondary school setting are familiar or comfortable with teach rhetoric in their classroom. However, from the research I have gathered I have found that this is because they do not know that they are already teaching principles that come from rhetoric, they just did not know that it was called rhetoric. I think that teachers could help their students even more in writing and language development by making sure to overtly teach rhetoric and try to implement rhetorical exercises and principles.
Have you tried asking the English 150 (Writing & Rhetoric) professors here at BYU? Their opinions would surely help I think.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I wonder if you could even interview Dr. Burton and use him as a source.
ReplyDeleteI recommend you talk to Dr. Brian Jackson, who has a degree in rhetoric and has been in leadership with writing instruction at BYU.
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