WRD 104: Composition & Rhetoric II Rotating Header Image

Critical Tools Inventory

What’s in our quivers so far?

  • Rhetorical, critical & reflective ways of thinking and being in the world
  • Bullshit vs. truth-seeking behavior
  • Writing that makes something happen in the world
  • Disinterested analysis vs. opinion
  • Writing with precision
  • Reading slowly, deeply, contextually
  • Stasis
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis vs. opinon vs. informed opinion
  • Being your own filter for information & knowledge
  • Identifying your own writing process and creating your own self-editing toolkit:
    • Brainstorming
    • Researching
    • Drafting
    • More researching
    • Revising
    • More researching
    • Editing
    • Proofreading
  • Problem solving: identifying resources and using them
  • Haters gonna hate
  • Active & empathetic listening
  • Time management