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A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these lost texts to reenvision the rhetorical tradition itself. Authors discussed include not only twentieth-century American compositionists but also a linguist, a poet, a philosopher, a painter, a
Recipient of the Nancy Dasher Book Award from the College English Association of Ohio, 1994 College Composition and Communication “The best essay collection in Rhetoric and Composition I have ever read.” Journal of Advanced Composition “Theoretically informed, sophisticated, critical, politically engaged, and demanding. . . . [A] text to be contended with.” Rhetoric Review “This book is
rhetorical hermeneutics: his critical history of disciplinary formations both describes rhetoric as a topic of study and uses it as a tool for understanding how scholarship is organized professionally and politically. Mailloux thus traces the paths taken by the topic of rhetoric as it migrates among disciplines. At the same time, he examines the tropes, arguments, narratives, and other pieces of rhetoric
Recommended for all teachers of composition and rhetoric, this volume is the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of recent discourse theory available. In the first part of Discourse, “Analysis of Theories,” Crusius summarizes and analyzes the theories of Kinneavy, Moffet, Britton, and D’Angelo. “A Dialogical Synthesis—and Beyond,” the book’s second part, reveals connections between these
Now in its fourth printing, this collection of thirteen essays reviews the major scholarship in a variety of fields that are shaping composition studies, including rhetoric, literary theory, cognitive studies, collaborative learning, and artificial-intelligence research.
. Integrating scholarship from literary studies and composition and rhetoric, Reading Sites examines a host of genres, from nineteenth-century working-class autobiographies and twentieth-century women’s confessional magazines to detective fiction and book-club selections, to question how various groups of readers and authors identify with competing social hierarchies.
the Rhetorical Lexicon of Style (138) Claire Lutkewitte, Star Medzerian Vanguri, and Stephanie Vie Search Engine Optimization and Its Significance for Alphabetic Composing in Writing Pedagogy (155) Jenna Pack Sheffield Of Writing and the Future: Augmented Reality Composition (177) Brenta Blevins Part Three: Modality and Writing Program Administration Positioning Writing: An Analysis of Textbook
the term composition itself—essays draw on theories of border work, mobility, liminality, cross-border interaction, center-periphery contours, superdiversity, and transnational rhetoric and address, among other topics, models of cognitive processing, principles of universal design, and frames of critical literacy awareness.
“Instructors at every level, no matter their fluency in digitality and comfort with technology, will gain from reading Hewett, Bourelle, and Warnock. The texts thoroughly integrate the threshold concepts of writing studies into a composition pedagogy that understands contemporary communication and values diversity, access, and inclusion.” —Computers and Composition
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