Thanks for asking! I've introduced the idea of studying writing as a way to develop slow thinking practices (i.e. Kahneman's fast and slow thinking dichotomy). For the first essay, I ask them to pick a meme and describe how a person might respond using fast thinking and what they might miss that they could explore further through slow thinking...
Thanks for this! I taught your previous post last semester and I'll use this one as well this semester in a rhetoric class with an AI theme.
Anna, glad it was useful. I’m curious. What are the goals of using memes in your rhetoric class? As you can see, I’m a big meme fan.
Thanks for asking! I've introduced the idea of studying writing as a way to develop slow thinking practices (i.e. Kahneman's fast and slow thinking dichotomy). For the first essay, I ask them to pick a meme and describe how a person might respond using fast thinking and what they might miss that they could explore further through slow thinking...
So they might reflect on the assumptions the meme makes and how they might question them and what more they might need to find out to judge if the argument the meme is making is really persuasive. I have them read the introduction to my textbook: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Advanced_Composition/How_Arguments_Work_-_A_Guide_to_Writing_and_Analyzing_Texts_in_College_(Mills)/01%3A_Introduction