engagement 2/5: arguments in other forms

 

In a group, discuss one of these texts in light of Shipka’s theory of activity-based multimodal composing. Some questions you might consider are:

• What would you describe the genre to be? What are the features of that genre?

• How is “rigorous” thinking and argumentation displayed in this genre?

• How does this argumentation compare to the kind of argumentation allowed in traditional academic essays? What does this genre allow them to do? How does it restrict them?

• 2.

https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/934291194976391169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chronicle.com%2Farticle%2FShould-Laptops-Be-Banned-in%2F241878

For some context: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Should-Laptops-Be-Banned-in/241878

• 3

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