RHETORIC
& COMPOSITION 2
PUBLIC
SPHERE LITERACY
Enables
students to:
• Employ critical thinking, reading, writing, speaking and listening
skills
• Communicate effectively as a citizen within different cultural
contexts—locally,
nationally, globally
PUBLIC
SPHERE DISCOURSES
Are
the kinds of reading, writing, speaking, and listening that occur
in public spheres:
• Entertainment
• News
• Politics
• Religious institutions
• Service organizations
• Workplaces
PUBLIC
SPHERE DISCOURSE CONVENTIONS
Are
the “rules” for public sphere writing and speaking:
• General conventions (reasoning, formats & sentence styles)
• Specific conventions appropriate for each context.
Unit
Learning Objectives Textbooks Rubrics
and Gradesheets
Writing
Resources Forms
Note
#1: No one is born with public sphere literacy. It can be learned
at any stage of life.
Note #2: R/C 2 cannot teach all the
conventions of every public sphere community. It can, however, help
students develop critical literacy, i.e., an ability to recognize,
analyze, employ, and (when necessary) interrupt discourse conventions
considered appropriate for each public context in which students
find themselves.
