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Faculty Spotlight—Dr. Seth Masket, Owen Mckessy, William Moody
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. Seth Masket, Owen Mckessy, William Moody
DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive
Interview with Dr. Seth Masket
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. Phil Danielson, Hannah Stanley, William Moody
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. Phil Danielson, Hannah Stanley, William Moody
DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive
Interview with Dr. Phil Danielson
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. William Phillpot, Will Moody
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. William Phillpot, Will Moody
DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive
William (Bill) Philpott Interview
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. Robert Dores, Anit Tyagi, William Moody
Faculty Spotlight—Dr. Robert Dores, Anit Tyagi, William Moody
DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive
Robert Dores Interview
Edited by Will Moody
Teaching Rhetorical Segmentation As A Countermeasure To Post-Truth In The Composition Classroom, John Gagnon
Teaching Rhetorical Segmentation As A Countermeasure To Post-Truth In The Composition Classroom, John Gagnon
The Liminal: Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology in Education
This paper responds to the call for rhetoric and composition instructors to engage with post-truth and fake news in the composition classroom. Pulling from personal experiences with post-truth in the composition classroom, the author leverages recent scholarship to develop a multi-phasic, objective analytical approach – rhetorical segmentation – that students can use to identify the purposes and motivations of a particular text. The approach of rhetorical segmentation relies on three primary steps: measuring rhetorical velocity, evaluating ideological modality, and identifying public harm. By combining these steps in a coherent method of analysis, the author argues that students are better equipped …