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K-STATE ENGLISH PROFESSOR USES INTERSECTION OF TEXT AND IMAGES TO TEACH MILLENNIAL 1xbet online casino RHETORICAL SKILLS FOR THE TYPES OF MEDIA THEY ENCOUNTER TODAY

MANHATTAN -- If colonial patriot Thomas Paine were making an argument for revolution today, &1xbet online casino ;Common Sense&1xbet online casino ; would more likely be a bumper sticker slogan or a YouTube video than a pamphlet.

That's why an English professor at Kansas State University thinks that teaching millennial 1xbet online casino about rhetoric shouldn't be limited to the page. Instead, it should be a multimodal experience.

&1xbet online casino ;People get really nostalgic for the old, traditional essay,&1xbet online casino ; said Phillip Marzluf, associate professor of English. &1xbet online casino ;I wonder when these are being read. Are they still a focus of the public? Do they move the public in certain ways? I would argue that they probably don't.&1xbet online casino ;

Marzluf integrates images and visual communications into the curriculum for K-State's Expository Writing II classes. He plans to continue this trend in the classes he teaches, and is sharing ideas to help other teachers adopt the same approach. He presented &1xbet online casino ;Meeting the Multimodal Millennial&1xbet online casino ; in October at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English conference in Wichita.

&1xbet online casino ;A lot of the traditional assignments are still with us,&1xbet online casino ; Marzluf said. &1xbet online casino ;My concern is that if we're still doing a lot of the print-based, monomodal, traditional essays, are we really reaching out to the ways that arguments are being made in students' public lives and professional lives as citizens and consumers? Literacy is changing, and so as teachers and professors we're going to have to change with it.&1xbet online casino ;

In spring 2010, Marzluf will teach a course on public writing. To see what the public sector looks like for millennial students, he said to think about the 2008 presidential campaign. Then-candidate Barack Obama's discussion on race, &1xbet online casino ;A More Perfect Union,&1xbet online casino ; was a multimodal discourse.

&1xbet online casino ;It was all over YouTube, and it was very easy to get to,&1xbet online casino ; he said. &1xbet online casino ;It was something you could access over and over again. If this were just done in a traditional essay format -- like Martin Luther King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' -- it probably would not have been consumed as much and probably would not have made much of an impact at all.&1xbet online casino ;

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that use a variety of media and writing styles. For instance, 1xbet online casino are asked to make an argument by writing an editorial response to a news item, and they also write in a memo format to help them identify their audience.

To incorporate visual forms of persuasion, 1xbet online casino has students in his own sections of the class use a proposal paper they've written to create advertisements and bumper stickers for a cause they choose, from autism advocacy to raising awareness about drug abuse. 1xbet online casino then has the students reflect on the benefits and constraints of these media, as well as how it makes them think differently and how audiences respond to it.

Marzluf said he'd like to incorporate the sound medium into a future class by producing audio profiles reminiscent of the public radio program &1xbet online casino ;This American Life.&1xbet online casino ;

He said millennial 1xbet online casino seem to enjoy the multimodal approach, although the age group's digital literacy sometimes is overstated.

&1xbet online casino ;We have these assumptions about teenagers and their lives,&1xbet online casino ; Marzluf said. &1xbet online casino ;Because they're at school for so many hours a day, they're not as dominated by digital media as much as we might think they are.&1xbet online casino ;