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Peer reviewedCoe, Richard M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1999
Discusses Kenneth Burke's notion of "symbolic action" as applied to texts and how it mediates perceptions. Discusses some ways to teach students to get outside their own perspectives and notice what they are overlooking (thus teaching Burke's "perspective by incongruity"). (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
