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- Corresponds to the Composition Learning Outcomes: Facilitates the teaching of writing. Is an example of real-world writing, allows for discussion of a writer’s choices, yet is flexible enough to fit a wide-range of instructor goals/themes.
- Prompts reflection, inquiry, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary discussion.
- Presents moral, ethical, and/or controversial dilemmas, without being overly ideological.
- Draws connections between and/or invites comparisons between local and global contexts. Broadens the reader’s understanding of the world.
- Has some element of “entertainment” value, without being glib or aphoristic.
- Allows for multi-modal activity development–The creation of visual, aural, and digital texts.
- Allows for some supplementary programming (topical speaker, discussion groups, thematic film festival, etc…)