Tag Archives: rhetorical awareness

GUIDE – Make Your Blog Posts Reader-Friendly

WHAT IS READER-FRIENDLY WRITING? While you’re in school, most of your writing is directed towards a teacher who is obligated to read it. But after college, most of your writing …

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COMMENTARY – Writing as a Design Art

I’ve been telling my students that writing is a “design art” for a while now, as a way of conveying that rhetorically effective writing is about more than stringing words …

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COMMENTARY – The Rhetoric of Interface Design

Below is a short presentation I delivered in a session on Using Digital Tools for writing instructors at CU Boulder. I drew on many resources to develop this condensed version …

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GUIDE – Strategies for Composing Stand-alone Presentations

SLIDE VERSION Rhetorical Considerations for Presentation Design from Amy Goodloe ARTICLE VERSION What makes any form of communication “effective”? Following the principles of reader-friendly design. When does a presentation need …

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GUIDE – Rhetorical Strategies for Blog Design

The design of the study guide blog includes elements that impact its visual appeal. Although you may not have thought about it this way, you have to make design decisions …

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WEB RESOURCE – Anatomy of Effective Web Design

This infographic does a nice job of introducing some basic principles of reader-friendly site design. What appears below is the top portion. To see the full infographic, go to: Anatomy …

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GUIDE – Use PDF annotation tools to teach academic reading

Common Teaching Issue: Students could use more help reading academic articles I notice this problem in two ways: in how students respond to articles as assigned readings and in how …

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WEB RESOURCES – Designing for the Web: A Tutorial

Here’s a helpful resource for learning how to write effectively for web audiences: Designing for the Web: A Tutorial by Mike Markel

GUIDE – Understanding the concept of rhetorical situation

One key concept in the study of rhetoric is the rhetorical situation, which refers to the factors that influence the creation of a message. Broadly speaking, the rhetorical situation includes …

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COMMENTARY – Design Analysis of D2L: Too Many Clicks

(Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) Here’s another entry into our collection of design successes and failures. As the “designer” in …

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COMMENTARY – Design Analysis of Google Docs: Inconsistent Visual Cues

(Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) (This post serves as an example of what you might contribute under the Design Successes …

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GUIDE – Tips for Building a Course Web Site

UPDATE: See this new post, which expands on some of these suggestions: Rhetorical considerations for online course materials NOTE: These tips are under development, but I’m posting what I have …

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COMMENTARY – Notes on the Rhetorical Nature of Web Design

These are the notes for a presentation I shared with colleagues on August 10, 2011, as part of the PWR Digital Composition Workshop. Notes on the Rhetorical Nature of Web …

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COMMENTARY – Rhetorical rationale for my WRTG 3020 class blog design

This screencast offers a rhetorical rationale for the decisions I made when designing and organizing the WRTG 3020 Summer 2011 Class Blog. I made the screencast for two reasons: to …

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GUIDE – Rhetorical purpose of peer review

Before you do peer reviews in my class, I want to encourage you to think about the rhetorical purpose of peer review from several perspectives. (1) From the perspective of …

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GUIDE – Rhetoric of academic writing conventions

I know “conventions” is kind of a funny word, but I’m using it because that’s the word that shows up on the state-mandated learning goals for all writing classes, as …

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GUIDE – What is rhetoric?

VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW At its heart, rhetoric is the study of how knowledge is created and shared through communication practices that include reading, writing, and speaking. Rhetoric gives us the …

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