ENGLISH 24
PARENTHETICAL DOCUMENTATION EXERCISE

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  1. Research has shown that literacy best develops by exposing learners to texts of different genres, using a multidisciplinary perspective (Benesch 3; Costanzo 3), and encouraging students’ inquiry through reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing (Standards 3).

  2. Research has shown that film imagery helps developmental students deal successfully with sophisticated discipline-based texts, and offers them a visual model for various rhetorical modes of written discourse such as comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and argumentation (Kasper and Singer 17; Stempleski 198). Film facilitates learning in several ways. It provides students with a graphic illustration of relevant content information and exposes them to authentic natural language.

  3. I like to talk with my students about Macrorie’s description of “most good writing” as “clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light” (31). There is much in this definition to admire and discuss. Invariably, students will question his inclusion of “unsentimental”—understandably, as Telling Writing is full of student writing that is emotional and sentimental (I suspect Macrorie meant to say “overly sentimental”). Telling Writing contains useful sections on self-editing, presentation of dialogue, and peer response. Of great importance, today’s students still respond to Macrorie’s admonition to “speak in honest voices and tell the truth” (15).

  4. In support of this viewpoint, Krashen cites child language studies demonstrating that children understand language containing structure that is a bit beyond them with the aid of context (126).

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