Rhetoric category: 666 books
The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect...
After the Public Turn
Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse...
Repurposing Composition
Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Repurposing Composition, Shari J. Stenberg responds to the increasing neoliberal discourse of academe through the feminist practice of repurposing. In doing so, she demonstrates how tactics informed by feminist praxis can repurpose current writing pedagogy, assessment, public engagement, and other...
Game Work
Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Video and computer games in their cultural contexts.
As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of...
Professional Communication and Network Interaction
A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Digital technologies and social media have changed the processes, products, and interactions of professional communication, reshaping how, when, with whom, and where business professionals communicate. This book examines these changes by asking: How does rhetorical theory need to adapt and develop...
The Rhetorical Nature of XML
Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer on XML and XML-related technologies, illustrating how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and detailing the essentials of...
by Derek Mueller, Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies coordinates mixed methods approaches to survey, interview, and case study data to study Canadian writing studies scholars. The authors argue for networked disciplinarity, the notion that ideas arise and flow through intellectual networks that connect scholars...
Closing the Gap
English Educators Address the Tensions Between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Without contraries there is no progression. William Blake This is a book about reality and hope. Its chapters reframe the concept of gap, acknowledging distances (for example, acknowledging old insights and theory while also honoring teacher discovery). However, it refuses to bow under the weight...
Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise
Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The first full-length account integrating both the cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing in the academy, this unique volume covers educational research on reading and writing, rhetorical research on writing in the disciplines, cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD...
by Katrina M. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides...
Interacting With Audiences
Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
This distinctive monograph examines the dynamic rhetorical processes by which scientists shape, negotiate, and position their work within an interdisciplinary community. Author Ann M. Blakeslee studies the everyday rhetorical practices of a group of condensed matter theoretical physicists, and presents...
Networked Process
Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Helen Foster problematizes one of the dominant metaphors in rhetoric and composition, the notion of “writing process,” and, in turn, offers an important and engaging new approach for the future of the discipline, one that directly addresses the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for writing research in a postmodern world.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors...