Event Title
Lisa Blankenship’s Changing the Subject, a Theory of Rhetorical Empathy in Action: How Using Personal Experience and Stories Can be Considered a Valid Form of Pedagogy in Composition Classes
Location
RC 101B
Start Date
8-4-2022 11:30 AM
End Date
8-4-2022 12:30 PM
Description
A first-year composition instructor from Emporia State University discusses the ways Lisa Blankenship’s “Changing the Subject” (2019) has motivated her to reimagine and redesign how they approach teaching writing. Specific discussion points include: moving away from an Aristotelian argumentation towards including more personal narratives, seeing emotional and personal experience as valid evidence, and using the theory of rhetorical empathy to make diverse perspectives more accessible to everyone in the writing classroom.
Lisa Blankenship’s Changing the Subject, a Theory of Rhetorical Empathy in Action: How Using Personal Experience and Stories Can be Considered a Valid Form of Pedagogy in Composition Classes
RC 101B
A first-year composition instructor from Emporia State University discusses the ways Lisa Blankenship’s “Changing the Subject” (2019) has motivated her to reimagine and redesign how they approach teaching writing. Specific discussion points include: moving away from an Aristotelian argumentation towards including more personal narratives, seeing emotional and personal experience as valid evidence, and using the theory of rhetorical empathy to make diverse perspectives more accessible to everyone in the writing classroom.