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Welcome to Open English @ SLCC
Why Six Core Concepts? So You Can Write ANYTHING
Nikki Mantyla
On Rhetoric
Chris Blankenship and Justin Jory
Language Matters: A Rhetorical Look at Writing
The Rhetorical Situation
Justin Jory
Audience
Exigence
On Genre
Clint Johnson
Counterargument
Jim Beatty
Rhetoric & Genre: You’ve Got This! (Even If You Don’t Think You Do …)
Tiffany Rousculp
Unpacking the Process of Rhetoric
Tiffany Buckingham Barney
Story as Rhetorical: We Can’t Escape Story No Matter How Hard We Try
Ron Christiansen
Monstrous Rhetoric: The Beasts We Feed
Ann Fillmore
A Food Critic’s Guide to Rhetorical Analysis
The Most Powerful (and Terrifying) Word in Academia
Ben Fillmore
Donald J. Trump, Pope Francis, and the Beef That Defied Space and Time
Benjamin Solomon
So You Wanna Be an Engineer, a Welder, a Teacher? Academic Disciplines and Professional Literacies
Marlena Stanford and Justin Jory
Memorability: 6 Keys for Success
Why Fiction?
“You Will Never Believe What Happened!”—Stories We Tell
On Building Self-Confidence in Writing
A. J. Ortega
How to Do College
Jerri A. Harwell
What I Wish I Could Tell My Past (Student) Self When First Attending SLCC
Cassandra Goff
Tell It True
Bernice Olivas
Exposure.Edu: Dirty Little Secrets
Beth Bailey
Let’s Talk
Personal Literacy and Academic Learning
Marlena Stanford
Writing for Community Change
Elisa Stone
The Elizabeth Smart Case: A Study in Narrativized News
Service Learning Abroad: Helping the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation in South Africa
The Ethics and Importance of Arguments Across Moral Tribes
Brandon Alva
Academic Writers: Responsible Researchers First
Simone Flanigan
Words Do Things in the World
Stacey Van Dahm
Introduction to Community-Engaged Learning
Daniel Baird and Lisa Packer
Community-Engaged Learning in English Composition Courses
Lisa Packer and Daniel Baird
Writers Make Strategic Choices
Charlotte Howe
Making Choices in Writing
Jessie Szalay
Organizing Texts in English Academic Writing
Anne Canavan
Punctuation, Memes, and Choice
Adding the Storyteller’s Tools to Your Writer’s Toolbox
Is That a True Story?
Follow a Map and Grab a Sandwich: Help Your Reader Navigate Your Writing
Stacie Draper Weatbrook
Definitions, Dilemmas, Decisions: Making Choices in Writing
Lynn Kilpatrick
Multi-Modal Communication: Writing in Five Modes
Consider My Rhetorical What?!! Please, Just Tell Me What You Want
Establishing Tone in Your Writing
Chris Blankenship
Liven It Up with Anecdotes
Lisa Packer
You’re Not Bad at Grammar: Social Rules for Using Language in College Writing
Joanne Baird Giordano
HOCs and LOCs and Even Some MOCs: Using Order of Concerns to Draft, Review, Revise, Be Graded, and Think
Critical Reading
Writing Is Recursive
Movies Explain the World (of Writing)
Peer Review
Citations: Why, When, How?
Collaborative Response: An Alternative to Peer Feedback
Writer’s Block? Try Creative Play and Freewriting
“Intertextuality”: A Reference Guide on Using Texts to Produce Texts
That’s All I Have to Say! Writer’s Block, Invention, and Revision in the Writing Process
Brandon Schembri
Making a Peer Review More Than a Waste of Time
Jason Roberts
On the Importance of Prep Work: How Automotive Painting Can Teach You to Polish Your Paper
Finding the Right Spiderman: An Introduction to Reference and Citation Formats
Annika Clark
Studying Without a Textbook
A Quick Introduction to College Learning Strategies
General Academic Literacy and Disciplinary Literacy
Reading for Understanding
Reading to Learn and Remember
Adapting to Disciplinary Literacy Conventions
Revision IS Writing. That is All.
Lisa Bickmore
‘Tis Better to Give and Receive: How to Have More Effective Peer Response Groups
Clint Gardner
The Writing Process: 5 Practical Steps
Why We Might Tell You “It Depends”: Insights on the Uncertainties of Writing
Justin Jory and Jessie Szalay
Effects Experienced Writers Use
The Narrative Effect: Story as the Forward Frame
The Information Effect: The Facts, the Figures, the So What?
The Persuasion Effect: What Does It Mean to Write Persuasively?
The Evaluation Effect: Making Judgments
Kati Lewis
Reflection: We’re Always Doing It
How Stasis Theory Helps You Write a Better Paper: Clearance Racks, Static Cling, and Waterproof Towels
Using Stasis Theory to Narrow Your Topic: A Lesson in Writing a Viewpoint Synthesis/Issue Exploration Paper and in Organizing Your Room
Write for the Conditions: Help Your Audience “HOLD ON”
What Is Story?
College Writing and Storytelling
GENRE in the WILD: Understanding Genre Within Rhetorical (Eco)systems
Audience Analysis: Reasonable Expectation vs. Stereotypes
Whose Job Is It to Make “Good” Writing? Writer-Responsible vs. Reader-Responsible Languages
Dash That Oxford Comma! Prestige and Stigma in Academic Writing
Christie Bogle
From Adult Child to the True Self: How the ACA Red Book Creates a New Identity for Trauma Survivors
Sara Aird
I Wrote Something, Now What?
Winnie Jenkins and Liberty Patterson
Storytelling and Identity: Writing Yourself Into Existence
The Disgusting Rhetoric Behind Social Media Copywriting
Emme Chadwick
The Incompatibility Between Classroom Literacies
Ygor Noblott
Service-Learning in English Studies and Writing Studies
Andrea Malouf
Code-Switching in the Digital Age: “Text Speak” in Academic Writing
Danielle Susi-Dittmore
Rhetorical Storytelling in the Classroom
Adapting to the Situation: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching ESL Writing
The Three R’s of Writing Identity: Recognition, Representation, and Reinvestment