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1	Determining Quality through Audience, Genre, and the Rhetorical Canon: Imagining a Biography of Eudora Welty for Children Michaels, Cindy Sheffield 12 May 2005 (has links) While numerous studies on academic writers composing for non-academic audiences exist, few if any studies address academic writers composing biographies for children. This self-reflective case study of a Eudora Welty biography for children provides insight into how an academic writer can effectively write in a specific genre (biography) for a specific audience (children) and into practical rhetorical choices such as choosing photographs and designing page layouts. The study also offers triangulated data regarding essential criteria of quality children’s literature as identified by experts in the field (editors, publishers, award committee members, scholars, and authors). The author’s findings include sixty-eight of the most often cited criteria, such as accuracy and the use of documented evidence, that serve as guidelines and a means of evaluating biographies written for children. Readers Nonfiction The five canons of rhetoric Pathos Logos Ethos Rhetorical situation Eudora Welty Audience Genre Biography Children Visual rhetoric Rhetoric Publishing Author Writing Quality in children’s literature English Language and Literature
2	Framför ditt tal med energi! : En läromedelsgranskning av vad som anses känneteckna god icke-verbal kommunikation vid muntliga framföranden / Present Your Speech with Energy! : A Critical Textbook Review of What Is Considered to Caracterize Good Non-verbal Communication in Oral Presenations Adolfsson, Evelina January 2021 (has links) Previous studies show that students are often expected to speak in front of a group, but they receive little guidance on how they should proceed. The aim of this essay is to contribute to the area by a critical examination of the advice and exercises that appear in six textbooks for the Swedish subject in upper secondary school. The study focuses solely on body language and voice ("actio") in oral presentations. Through a qualitative text analysis, the study examines what is considered to characterize a good actio according to the textbooks and how students are expected to acquire these abilities. The essay also sheds light on how the content of textbooks can be understood in relation to the theory ”actiokapitalet” (Gelang, 2008). The result show that contact with the audience through gaze, variation in the use of voice and a lack of nervous expressions, is considered desirable. In the textbooks, students are often encouraged to develop actio through listening to feedback. Within actiokapitalet, a holistic perspective on actio is emphasized, as well as the fact that body language and the use of voice depend on the social context. The content of the books can both be considered compatible with, and deviating from, the theory. In the concluding discussion, I claim that ”actiokapitalet” contributes with an in-depth perspective on the textbooks and I call for further studies where the theory is tested in teaching. Actio non-verbal communication public speaking rhetoric the five canons of rhetoric Actio muntliga framföranden retorik kroppsspråk icke-verbal kommunikation den retoriska arbetsprocessen Didactics Didaktik

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Determining Quality through Audience, Genre, and the Rhetorical Canon: Imagining a Biography of Eudora Welty for Children

Framför ditt tal med energi! : En läromedelsgranskning av vad som anses känneteckna god icke-verbal kommunikation vid muntliga framföranden / Present Your Speech with Energy! : A Critical Textbook Review of What Is Considered to Caracterize Good Non-verbal Communication in Oral Presenations