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Welcome:
If you are reading this, then you must think that I have the potential to be your tutor. I can assure you that if I provide instruction for you, or your child(ren), I will do my very best to ensure that you are getting what you are paying for. I am a university instructor who takes education extremely seriously; that being said, I also enjoy having a good time. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Statement of Context:
As a Rhetoric and Composition instructor in my capacity at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I have increasingly diversified what it means to teach "writing" and "argument." Instead of relying on the traditionalist approaches of the New Critics of the last century, I integrate a contemporary prospective about culture, the self and others to encourage students to evaluate their writing rhetorically, in terms of results and motivations, and to be able to look at the "texts" of others' writing in this light. Those other "texts" are not only written; in fact, in my composition classes, I encourage students to read non-textual artifacts to facilitate a better understanding of what exactly persuasion means in a modern context. By evaluating arguments in film, photography, music and written texts, my students develop a "rhetorical toolbox" with which they are better able to assess the art of persuasion in a post-modern context.
While theory is important in reading the world as a text, I lead my class as a practice wherein students are equipped with the abilities to undertake rhetorical analysis. My pedagogy emphasizes the classroom as a place where rhetoric is practiced, not merely defined. As such, the assignments I design incorporate different media (when available) and encourage students to use collaboration to better develop their viewpoint. I also encourage students to use their lived experience to analyze the numerous artifacts that we deconstruct. By blending a student's epistemic experience and the utterances of others, my assignments increase student writers' ethos and provide the authority that is so often desperately needed by neophyte writers.
Teaching Philosophy:
I believe that students grow intellectually and individually from hands-on experience and the belief that they can succeed. I also believe that if I can show students how the course subject matter relates to their lives and goals, then they will leave my classroom with both greater critical thinking, speaking & writing skills and a willingness to question. To accomplish these objectives, I design a student-centered classroom in which students share the responsibility for learning to think, speak and write critically. Consequently, I plan assignments and evaluation procedures to promote the same ends.
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