Ancient Rhetorics For Contemporary Students

Introduction: The curriculum for English 1320 calls for a primary textbook that teaches students writing techniques along with helping students improve their writing skills. The primary textbook used for this class is Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students (ARCS). This textbook goes into great detail about the writing techniques used by the great writers of the past, but the problem lies in that this book provides no help in actually teaching the students different ways to improve their writing. This book overall seems as if it only provides definitions and overall it is difficult to understand. Although the title claims that this textbook is meant for contemporary students, this book in truth is not relatable to modern society. It talks about many writers and most students have no previous knowledge of these people, their works, or the terms the authors use. This book is not completing its purpose and instead is causing students to become confused.
Justice/Fairness:
For the benefit of the students, I propose that an alternative textbook should be used in order to help students learn their …show more content…
The problem lies in having to change the course to better fit the book. That is why I propose that we first write up the new curriculum that will be implemented in the fall semester. By having a new curriculum written up at the beginning of a school year, it will allow professors to keep their lessons consistent with both semesters and it will be a complete fresh start. Not only that, the professors will have learning sessions before executing the new curriculum so they can better understand the book and have their questions concerning the new textbook and curriculum answered. These sessions will allow the English professors to better understand the curriculum so that if students have questions, the professors will be better equipped in answering those