In Praise of Silence

Authors

Bebe Nickolai, Maryville University of Saint LouisFollow

Date of this Version

Fall 2005

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 6:2, Fall/Winter 2005. Copyright © 2005 by the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Abstract

I thought I was ready for her, a sophomore in my honors rhetoric class. I have been teaching the honors rhetoric class for almost twenty years. Yet every semester I revise my syllabus for the class as I realize that honors students can handle even bigger challenges—more difficult readings, more demanding writing assignments.