This article presents the author's response to "How Do We See What We See? Pedagogical Lacunae and Their Pitfalls in the Classroom" by Jennifer A. Rich. McKinney describes how she tweaked a rhetorical analysis assignment to have it produce more summary, description and response. She stresses that teachers can create a more rhetorically viable…

Reviews three composition/rhetoric readers who, in spite of their effort to broaden notions of textuality and culture, limit the role of the writing process to the more traditional interpretive goals of the English department. (TB)

While taking issue with the medium that has given students a distorted view of the world in which they live, proposes legitimizing television's presence in the classroom by studying its rhetorical devices in order to demystify it. Offers a methodology for analyzing television news and includes two schematic figures. (JK)