In Writing Rhetorically: Fostering Responsive Thinkers and
Communicators, author Jennifer Fletcher aims to cultivate independent
learners through rhetorical thinking. She provides teachers with
strategies and frameworks for writing instruction that can be applied
across multiple subjects and lesson plans. Student learn to discover
their own questions, design their own inquiry process, develop their own
positions and purposes, make their own choices about content and form,
and contribute to conversations that matter to them.
Inside this book, Fletcher helps remove some of the scaffolding and
explains how to put in practice some methods which can successfully
foster:
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Inquiry, Invention, and Rhetorical Thinking
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Writing for Transfer
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Paraphrasing, Summary, Synthesis, and Citation Skills
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Research Skills and Processes
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Evidence-Based Reasoning
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Rhetorical Decision Making
Rhetorical decision making helps students develop the skills, knowledge,
and mindsets needed for transfer of learning: the ability to adapt and
apply learning in new settings. The more choices students make as
writers, the better prepared they are to analyze and respond to diverse
rhetorical situations. Writing Rhetorically shows teachers what it
looks like to dig into real texts with students and novice writers and
how it develops them for lifelong learning.
