ERIC Number: EJ1235452
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 30
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Teaching Voice as a Method of Close Listening
Connors-Manke, Beth
CEA Forum, v48 n1 p148-177 Win-Spr 2019
In face-to-face conversation, it's easy to react with shock and moralism to the incivility enabled by social media, easy to lament that we live in an era when communication has gone wrong. The digital era, however has also reinvigorated voice--both written and spoken--in other, less toxic, ways. We've seen a resurgence in oral composition (think: podcasts), and social media has reared a generation of individuals with sharp, performative skills in text and video. Understanding this situation as one coin with two sides means that teachers have many pedagogical opportunities when teaching voice in composition. First, becoming attuned to voice means listening--to your own voice and to others' voices--and recognizing the embodied aspect of voice. Second, one should understand that pedagogical and philosophical orientation while listening matters. Third, in thinking about broad cultural and discursive concerns, teachers might consider how to use voice as a tool that is inventional, expressive, rhetorical, and ethical.
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Listening Skills, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Expressive Language, Teaching Methods, Literary Styles, Rhetorical Invention
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Language: English
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