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Learning to Live a Rhetorical Life: A New Strategy for Teaching First-Year Composition
(2022-12-16)
Finding a Pedagogical Path to a Rhetorical Life: The received history of first-year composition (FYC) pedagogy seems to present itself in almost Darwinian evolutionary terms, first emerging from the swamp of Susan Miller’s ...
A Rhetorical analysis of the polular society addresses of Thermidor /
(1998)
The encouragement the letters give to violence and further terror are products of their orality. Because they were composed by committees' deliberations and for the specific purpose of being read aloud, the letters are ...
Ethos and the politics of habit: Class, character, and coercion in Aristotelian rhetorics.
(1998)
Middle-class professional ethos has undergone significant shifts from the "personality market" described by Erich Fromm and C. Wright Mills to the postmodern knowledge worker or "symbolic analyst" described by Robert Reich. ...
Network epistemic rhetoric: Composition in the digital age.
(2007)
This project will begin with an examination of social epistemic rhetoric in relation to the scholarship of computers and composition, complexity theory and the post-process movement. Next, the critical methodology suggested ...
On the use of significant words: Mary Wollstonecraft's contribution to the modern rhetorical tradition.
(1999)
This study addresses the absence of female rhetors and theorists from the modern rhetorical tradition as a minor tradition within the western tradition as exemplified within Bizzell and Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition ...
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 ...