Everyday Rhetoric: How Meaning Is Learned Before It Is Explained. Everyday Rhetoric is a public exhibit and professional learning experience that considers what literacy is and where it begins. Most conversations about literacy start with books, vocabulary, or interpretation. Everyday Rhetoric begins earlier — with structure.
Before students analyze arguments, they are already navigating them. Before they write essays, they are already participating in structured systems. Before they are taught rules, they are absorbing patterns.
The exhibit advances a simple claim:
Literacy is recognition and control of structure under cognitive load.