Constructing Rhetorical Education

In nineteen essays illustrating its many aspects, this book offers an argument for what it takes to construct a complete rhetorical education. The editors take an approach that is pragmatic and pluralistic, based as it is on the assumptions that a rhetorical education is not limited to teaching freshman composition (or any specific writing course) and that the contexts in which such an education occurs are not limited to classrooms. This thought-provoking volume stresses that while a rhetorical education results in the growth of writing skills, its larger goal is to foster critical thinking. Feminist Theory And Practice In The Writing Classroom : A Critique And A Prospectus / Anuradha Dingwaney And Lawrence Needham -- Women's Work, Worthy Work : Composition Instruction At Vassar College, 1897-1922 / Joann Campbell -- Spoken To Written Language : Thoughts On The Evolution Of Consciousness / Katherine Borland -- A Reexamination Of Attitudes Towards Black English Vernacular / Valerie M. Balester -- Composing One's Self In A Discipline : Students' And Teachers' Negotiations / Anne J. Herrington -- When Basic Skills Are Really Basic And Really Skills / Louise Wetherbee Phelps -- Looking Under The Table : The Shapes Of Writing In College / Carmen B. Schmersahl And Byron L. Stay -- Technology As A Catalyst For Educational Reform In English Classes : Computer-supported Writers' Conferences / Cynthia L. Selfe -- U-shaped Behavior In Basic Writing : The Case For Backsliding / Evangeline Marlos Varonis -- Socio-cognitive Development And Student Performance On Audience-centered Argumentative Writing / Janice N. Hays And Kathleen S. Brandt -- Connection And Understanding / Jeanne Fahnestock -- Toward Improving Models Of Writers : Searching For Models Of Audience / V. Melissa Holland -- Writers Meet Their Readers In The Classroom : Revising After Feedback / Barbara M. Sitko -- New Historicism And Social Rhetoric : From The Bard To The Boardroom-- A Cultural Exchange / Elizabeth A. Mccord -- Engineered Revisions In Industry / Mary Rosner -- Citation And Documentation Across The Curriculum / Diane Dowdey -- Enthymemes Of Anger In Cicero And Thomas Paine / Jeffrey Walker -- Narration, Technical Communication And Culture : The Soul Of A New Machine As Narrative Romance / Steven B. Katz -- Putting The Irs On Notice : A Lesson In The Tactics Of Intimidation / Aletha Hendrickson. Edited By Marie Secor And Davida Charney. This Book Grew Out Of The 1988 Penn State Conference On Rhetoric And Composition Which Honored The Career Of Professor Wilma R. Ebbitt--pref. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.