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Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Excluding the masses: Aptitude in classical and modern rhetorical theory.
(2003)
In my discussions of how aptitude operates in the composition theory of the United States, I explore current-traditional, expressivist, and social rhetorics. Although classical commonplaces persist, I argue that American ...