Next Level Training Module
Multiple Texts for Multiple Contexts
Instructional Goals
- Encouraging rhetorical flexibility through substantive revision
- Presenting writing as a means of discovering, as well as expressing, ideas
- Using rhetorical situation to guide revision
- Analyzing college students' rhetorical revision essays
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (English IV) Objectives Addressed
- Writing: 1 A,B; 2 B,E,H; 3 D,E; 4 A,B,C,G,H; 5 A,C,D; 6 A,B,C
- Reading: 9 A; 11 D; 13 D,F
About the Authors
Carrie Leverenz is an associate professor at Texas Christian University. Her areas of expertise and interests are composition theory and pedagogy, writing program administration, magazine writing, and the effects of technologies on literate practices. Dr. Leverenz is co-editor of the journal Composition Studies and co-director of TCU's New Media Writing Studio.
Jennifer Richardson is a master teacher specialist for Ft. Worth ISD's English Department. Previously she was grant facilitator for the LEP Secondary School Success Initiative Grant for the Bilingual Department. Ms. Richardson has taught at the Language Centers of Ft. Worth's Amon Carter-Riverside H.S. and Western Hills H.S., where she was Team Leader.
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Sample Student Essays(PDF) Sample Student Slides(PDF) Classroom Activities(PDF)
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