Character and the Composing Process.

Autor/in	Rivers, Thomas M.
Titel	Character and the Composing Process.
Quelle	(1983), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Audience Analysis; Codes of Ethics; Communication (Thought Transfer); Higher Education; Humanistic Education; Individual Development; Moral Values; Writing Instruction; Writing Processes; Writing Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Humanistische Bildung; Individuelle Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Schreibunterricht; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit
Abstract	As communication is a moral action involving personal choice, composition instructors must help promote their students' character development. Whether during audience analysis, invention, or disposition, composition always involves the development and testing of four virtues: honesty, courage, love, and a combination of hope and humility. Teachers can encourage their students' honesty by assigning manageable topics that emphasize informed opinion over succesful argumentation and by stressing the need for concern over the reality created by writing. Teachers can promote courage by having students conduct primary research on topics that threaten their image of the world, by emphasizing that writing is a deed that needs to be witnessed, and by stressing that the students must decide whether to impress audiences with their writing style. Teachers need to understand that by establishing communion with the self and by communicating something beneficial and significant to readers, student writing can develop self-love and love of others. Finally, teachers can encourage students' humility as well as hope by helping them see that knowing and communicating are both difficult and valuable activities. (MM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC