...Lisa King This article discusses how teaching students to recognize the contemporary American Indian theoretical concepts of “rhetorical sovereignty” and “rhetorical alliance” in Native texts can help deepen understanding of American Indian voices and histories in an appropriate context, while also...

... for implementing WAC initiatives in different disciplines. The entrepreneurial consulting model emphasizes the need to establish an ongoing presence within a discourse community, to continually “sell” writing and rhetoric to both faculty and students, and to strategically use rhetoric to promote rhetoric. © 2009...

...Deborah H. Holdstein In this article, Deborah Holdstein exhorts scholars of rhetoric and composition to break new ground by searching for absences — missing topics, little-known but influential scholars, alternative canons — that would enhance the work in the field. Noting that certain topics...

...Jane Mathison Fife This article describes an assignment that involves students in an exploration of the rhetorical practices common in Facebook, making use of rhetorical savvy that they have—but generally are not aware of—to teach the often-challenging skill of rhetorical analysis. The class...

...Paula Comeau © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse . By Michael J. Zerbe. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. Collins, Harry, and Trevor Pinch. 1993 . The Golem: What Everyone Should Know...

...Adrienne P. Lamberti; Anne R. Richards This article on digital writing identifies a range of genres that are employed by gamers, many of which evince dialogic rhetoric. Such discourse offers potential to decenter group power relations and thus suggests an opportunity to promote a democratic...

...Craig Rood I theorize four civility moves—opening up, searching for sameness, examining differences, and listening deeply. Although I ultimately offer these as rhetorical strategies to be taught and practiced explicitly, I use them here as a framework for interpreting student writing that emerged...

...Rochelle Harris Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 4, Number 3, © 2004 Duke University Press 401 Encouraging Emergent Moments: The Personal, Critical, and Rhetorical in the Writing Classroom Rochelle Harris We are taught not to trust our...

...Kathleen McEvoy Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 3, © 2005 Duke University Press 409 Using Shakespeare s King Lear to Teach Symmetry, Metaphor, and the Rhetorical Question Kathleen McEvoy In To Write Is to Read Is to Write...

... . “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 : 1 -14. Boyer, Ernest. 1990 . Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate . Pittsburgh: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. 1998...

...Matthew Newcomb This article argues for using rhetorical quandaries as a basis for composition courses. Following work in composition that considers the notion of “problem,” the article explores constraints as a way to determine main difficulties in writing situations. Course examples indicate...

...Wade Mahon © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Berglund, Lisa. 1999 . “Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader.” Teaching the Eighteenth Century 7 : 45 -58. Berlin, James A. 1987 . Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges,1900–1985 . Carbondale...

... to help students capitalize on the rhetorical possibilities of these discourses. Student Perspectives on Faith in the Classroom Religious Discourses and Rhetorical Possibilities Heather Thomson-­Bunn One day, while I was teaching composition as a graduate student instructor, a student came...

... in the classroom. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 mental disability mental illness classroom disclosure stigma rhetorical scaffolding ...

...Rasha Diab; Beth Godbee; Cedric Burrows; Thomas Ferrel This article names microaggressions as a rhetorical and pedagogical phenomenon. To make the case for rhetorical and pedagogical intervention, the authors define and trace microaggressions in literature from rhetoric, composition, and literacy...

... scaffold students into critical perspectives by linking critical pedagogy more closely with efforts to develop students’ rhetorical meta-awareness of writing. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 critical pedagogy threshold concepts first-year composition metacognition rhetoric...

...Amy E. Robillard This article considers the role of real-world writing pedagogy in the persistence of the real world/academy binary that fuels contemporary trigger warning debates, arguing instead for attention to the actual rhetorical constraints of the classrooms we all work in regularly. ©...

...Janelle Adsit; Laura Wilder The article reports on a nationwide survey- and interview-based study of creative writing instructors designed to identify the extent to which the field of rhetorics and composition and key aspects of rhetorical theory have influenced the teaching of creative writing...

.... 2012 . Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Reviews The Trouble with an Airtight Case The Rhetoric of Method or the Rhetoric of Urgency? The Value of the Humanities. By Helen...

...Mike Edwards Duke University Press 2006 The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication . By Wayne C. Booth. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. R ev iews Roundtable The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest...