Increasingly we depend on social media and online publications for access to news and information that affects our lives and informs our decisions. With the
As limited funding and job availability looms for those immersed in humanities scholarship, the idea of taking on another set of knowledge proves impossible for
Undergraduate students sometimes have trouble leveraging historical context to the end of persuasion. Reasons for this include that they may not see contextualizing (including the
As rhetoric and composition instructors, we typically have students work with written texts, both in analysis and in production. While we might ask students to
In today’s information economy, the abundance and production pace of information can make it difficult to follow news coverage of any given topic or event.
With audio technology becoming both more advanced and also more affordable, the options for understanding and exploring the ways in which sound and image interact
In Carolyn Miller’s foundational text in Rhetorical Genre Studies, “Genre as Social Action,” (1984) she asserts the utility in studying “homely discourses.” Examining the quotidian
Image and code from wired.com Ferdinand Saussure provided a framework and vocabulary that can be applied in composition classrooms to understand the “arbitrary” nature of
Image Public Domain, Flickr The goal of this lesson is for students to interview someone who has failed at something—in a small or large, invisible
Acquiring digital skills does not just mean learning how to find one’s way successfully when navigating on the internet, but it also involves, especially in
In an earlier blog post, the DWRL offered various free resources and tips for creating visual content that is accessible to people with visual impairments.
Today’s shift towards the vast complexity of digital literacies involves, perhaps more than any other medium, the skills of producing digital videos, including the so-called
