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VanDerHeide, Jennifer – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Although teaching argumentative writing in schools is often about teaching argumentative forms, this instructional approach limits students' flexibility and choice as writers, readers, and meaning makers. An alternative method, rooted in tenets of genre theory, offers a different approach. Rather than treating argument as a static form, genre…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Advanced Placement, Literature
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Johnson, Lindy L. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Drawing on sociocultural perspectives and New Literacies Studies this study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a tool to closely analyse one way the Common Core State Standards in the United States are being produced, disseminated and consumed. The analysis focuses on a section of the CCSS, a model lesson given by one of the primary…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Sociocultural Patterns, Core Curriculum, State Standards