Ideas Worth Spreading?: TED’s Rhetorical Position in College Composition
Keywords:
rhetorical analysis, TED, popular culture, composition, teachingAbstract
TED as a popular culture artifact has made its way into college writing classrooms as a method by which some writing teachers model research processes like brainstorming and idea formation. This microstudy includes interviews and survey results in which teachers at a small regional school verify their love for TED's online videos. In examining TED's rhetoric alongside the results of the interviews and surveys, I argue that certain texts like TED videos often present conflicting messages to young students struggling to find their voices.
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