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  • Speaking for the dead : funeral rhetoric and women's lament in ancient Athens

    Creator:
    Robertson, Wayne
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    Recently, feminist scholars have begun to question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in terms of privileged, white males to the exclusion of all other voices, these scholars have worked to recover "lost" female rhetoricians and have begun critically rereading the...
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    Speaking for the dead : funeral rhetoric and women's lament in

  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

    Creator:
    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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    A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community

  • Writing a feminist position in the classroom

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    Forrest, Dodie A.
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    Like other social institutions, universities have been created and administered by and for a white-male dominant culture that continues to marginalize women and anyone else designated as -Other- according to race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, size, and sexuality. This discussion questions the dominant model of standard written discourse in the...
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    assignment. In her recent article in Rhetoric Review, Rose identifies gender differences in the student

  • Composing for Social Change : Clashes of Ideographs and Ideology in the Composition Classroom

    Creator:
    Gasser, Chris
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    Clashes of ideology are all around us, from our computer and television screens to our composition classrooms, and they merit attention within the composition classroom. This thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to infuse issues of ideology and social ethics into writing instruction...
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    thesis examines the justifications and pedagogies that scholars in rhetoric and composition use to

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

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    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    theories and placement of Redacted for Privacy rhetoric in their systems, and their educational

  • Shifting the scholarly conversation : a rhetorical reading of Peter Elbow's work

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    Slaton, Dorothy N.
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    Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow's Work explores Peter Elbow's contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course of his long career, Elbow’s scholarly and pedagogical work has been much praised and much criticized. Elbow's work has influenced generations of teachers and writers,...
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    Elbow’s Work explores Peter Elbow’s contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course

  • Sarah Grimke's Rhetoric for Empowerment : Her Life and Letters

    Creator:
    Hamilton, Susan E. Maier
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    In twentieth century America, women continue the age-old struggle for recognition as whole, intelligent individuals, not just an "other," less hearty, less deserving or less capable being than man. Sarah Grimke spoke of the inequalities over 150 years ago during the abolitionist movement when she compiled her major arguments into...
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    Sarah Grimke's rhetoric for empowerment : her life and

  • Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

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    Bruno, Edward Louis
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
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    then exists where Jackson and his rhetoric are unique in so much as Jackson has been able to

  • The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Danielle M.
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    Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
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    : Authorizing Students to Read and Write Introduction: A Question of Pedagogy A rhetoric[, whether it be of

  • The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

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    Caster, Peter
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    First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
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    student and teacher of rhetoric and compositionidentities constituted in relationships with others. As a