by Richard Beach and Cadance Doerr-Stevens
in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
March 2009
The article knits together several ideas about engaging kids in writing and argumentative literacy. It borrows ideas from Harris (How to do things with texts), Flower (Community literacy and the rhetoric of public engagement), and Graff (They say/I say). The example, of an on-line collaborative argument/problem solving, addresses engagement, authenticity, role-playing, building argumentative skills. The article addresses teachers' role in helping kids negotiate the recent media movement to the "echo chamber" of particular value groups.
I'm going to try to use some of this in my fourth-quarter writing assignment for English 1.
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