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"Both digital writing and information literacy call attention to today's interactive and multimodal information environments, which have both expanded and complicated the ways people use, create, and share information. As both composition instructors and librarians expand our conceptions of writing and of research, we may find that rhetoric becomes all the more essential for situating information literacy and writing."

"Learning to write means making choices in the interests of fulfilling all dimensions of a rhetorical situation, and one of those choices should be length." I remember multiple teachers telling me that a paper should be "long enough", but none who gave me the tools Warner describes to figure out what that means.

Xtranormal is an online service which creates animated videos based on your script. In this Chronicle article, the author describes using this approach to help students learn to write arguments by assigning the sides to animated characters.

"For years, the term has filled a gap for us. It has functioned rhetorically as a way to contrast evidence-based teaching practices (a much better term, by the way) with more traditional methodologies, but ultimately the wide-ranging utility of this classification is also its drawback."

Writing is a major component of many academic disciplines, but how can professors give feedback that will allow students of different backgrounds the opportunity to grow? Laurie McMillin, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Oberlin College, give some tips on getting the best writing from ESL and multilingual writers in the college classroom.