ComicCon 2022 Comics Arts Conference Session

ComicCon 2022 Comics Arts Conference Session As the World Burns, Will Gen Z Listen? In most first-year composition courses at public universities, writing instructors teach students about different argumentation styles, academic writing situations, rhetoric, classic appeals in both textual and visual settings, and how to integrate a deeper awareness of these elements into their reading and writing habits. Kristin Tamayo (California Polytechnic State Universitv. Pomona) uses Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan's graphic novel As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stav in Denial in her classroom to give her students a way to study classic rhetorical appeals while also deepening their visual rhetorical awareness. Here, Tamayo discusses her analysis of student writers' responses to this book to determine their understanding of the classical rhetorical appeals it uses to inform and persuade its audience to care about the effects of ecocide Her students Courtney M. Murdoch, Yoselin I. Castro, and Hannah Gruid! share their reactions to reading the graphic novel in the classroom.