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ERIC Number: EJ347027
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Composition and Popular Culture: From Mindless Consumers to Critical Writers.
Boyd, Veleda; Robitaille, Marilyn
English Journal, v76 n1 p51-53 Jan 1987
Presents a model for a composition workshop using topics generated from the popular media. Designed to help students explore the mimetic characteristics of popular culture and to analyze the appeals, claims, and techniques used in advertising. Grouped under thematic guidelines of social roles, assignments are flexible in length but easily changed to different patterns of organization. (NKA)
Descriptors: Advertising, Athletes, Cultural Images, English Instruction, Films, Mass Media, Persuasive Discourse, Popular Culture, Role Models, Role Perception, Salesmanship, Secondary Education, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Television, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Archetypes; Machismo; Social Roles; Writing Workshops