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Constructing Rhetorical Education
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Constructing Rhetorical Education

by Davida Charney, Marie Secor. 432 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Davida Charney, Marie Secor

Publisher:

   Southern Illinois University Press

Place of Publication:

  Carbondale, IL  

Publication Year:

  1992
Subjects:   English Language--Rhetoric--Study And Teaching--Congresses, Report Writing--Study And Teaching--Congresses
Table of contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
I. How Culture Constructs Students and Teachers 1
1. Feminist Theory and Practice in the Writing Classroom: A Critique and a Prospectus 6
Anuradba Dingwaney and Lawrence Needham, Oberlin College
2. Women's Work, Worthy Work: Composition Instruction at Vassar College, 1897-1922 26
JoAnn Campbell, Indiana University
3. Spoken to Written Language: Thoughts on the Evolution of Consciousness 43
Katherine Borland, Indiana University
4. A Reexamination of Attitudes Towards Black English Vernacular 63
Valerie M. Balester, Texas A&M University
II. How Institutions Construct the Writing Classroom 87
5. Composing One's Self in a Discipline: Students' and Teachers' Negotiations 91
Anne J. Herrington, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
6. When "Basic Skills" Are Really Basic and Really Skills 116
Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Syracuse University
7. Looking Under the Table: The Shapes of Writing in College 140
Carmen B. Schmersahl and Byron L. Stay, Mount Saint Mary's College
8. Technology as a Catalyst for Educational Reform in English Classes: Computer-Supported Writers' Conferences 150
Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological University
III. How Writers Develop 171
9. U-Shaped Behavior in Basic Writing: The Case for Backsliding 175
Evangeline Marlos Varonis, University of Akron
10. Socio-Cognitive Development and Student Performance on Audience-Centered Argumentative Writing 202
Janice N. Hays and Kathleen S. Brandt, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
IV. How Writers Respond to the Needs of Readers 231
11. Connection and Understanding 235
Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland
12. Toward Improving Models of Writers: Searching for Models of Audience 257
V. Melissa Holland, U. S. Army Research Institute
13. Writers Meet Their Readers in the Classroom: Revising After Feedback 278
Barbara M. Sitko, Washington State University
V. How Discourse Communities Construct Readers and Writers 295
14. New Historicism and Social Rhetoric: From the Bard to the Boardroom—A Cultural Exchange 299
Elizabeth A. McCord, University of Cincinnati
15. Engineered Revisions in Industry 318
Mary Rosner, University of Louisville
16. Citation and Documentation Across the Curriculum 330
Diane Dowdey, Texas A&M University
VI. How Affective Discourse Constructs Its Public 353
17. Enthymemes of Anger in Cicero and Thomas Paine 357
Jeffrey Walker, Penn State University
18. Narration, Technical Communication, and Culture: The Soul of a New Machine as Narrative Romance 382
Steven B. Katz, North Carolina State University
19. Putting the IRS on Notice: A Lesson in the Tactics of Intimidation 403
Aletba Hendrickson, University of Maryland
Index 423
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