Currently, more than 50 of the top 100 YouTube channels feature gameplay, a popularity largely fueled by young audiences. Let's Play videos (often known simply as LPs) typically include gameplay footage accompanied by simultaneous commentary recorded by the player. This article explores three ways English educators might use Let's Play videos and…

Considers the quest for meaning to be the primary function of the rhetorical critic--meaning that goes from the text outward and that is interpreted by the reader. (RB)

Although, by the time of her death, Louise Rosenblatt was highly respected in the fields of composition and reading theory, she did not enjoy the same status among literary theorists. In this article, the author argues that Rosenblatt should be taken seriously as a literary theorist. The author shares her views on Rosenblatt's "Literature as…

Explores the trend in modern literature and criticism away from the central issues and forces of human life and the corresponding alienation and specialization of college English departments and the profession itself. Calls for a more public orientation in the teaching and criticism of literature. (HTH)

Suggests that students need to become aware of the relationship between one's writing and one's intended audience and presents a way for students to make this analysis. (JM)

Demonstrates how composition textbook advertisements suggest, project, and perhaps even create an audience. Proposes four different audience-related elements of the ad-object: context, genre, borrowings, and reflexivity. (MS)

We should train our students to apply the tools of literary analysis to political language.

Creative writing assignments are described which prepare students better to apprehend and appreciate Shakespeare's art.