Mutuality In The Rhetoric And Composition Classroom

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809390965
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom written by David Wallace and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom, David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between language and knowledge making. They also stress the need for a change in the roles of teachers and students in today’s classroom. Their goal is mutuality, a sharing of authority among teachers and students in the classroom that would allow everyone an equal voice in the communication of ideas. Arguing that the impetus to empower students by engaging them in liberatory and emancipatory pedagogies is simply not enough, Wallace and Ewald seek to “help readers identify, theorize, and work through problems faced by teachers who already value alternative approaches but who are struggling to implement them in the classroom." It is not the teacher’s job merely to convey a received body of knowledge, nor is knowledge a prepackaged commodity to be delivered by the teacher. It is “constituted in the classroom through the dialogic interaction between teachers and students alike.” Wallace and Ewald see mutuality as potentially transformative, but they “do not believe that the nature or that transformation can be designated in advance.” Rather it is located in the interaction between teachers and students. Wallace and Ewald look at how the transformative notion of mutuality can be effected in classrooms in three important ways: reconstituting classroom speech genres, redesigning the architecture of rhetoric and writing courses, and valuing students’ interpretive agency in classroom discourse. Mutuality in alternative pedagogy, they assert, is neither a single approach nor a specific set of valued practices; it is a continuous collaboration between teachers and students.

Author : David L. Wallace
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809323249
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom written by David L. Wallace and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace (rhetoric and composition, Iowa State University) and Rothschild (rhetoric and professional communication, Iowa State University) highlight the central role of rhetoric in the university. They argue that there is a clear connection between language and the construction of knowledge. They re-cast the roles of student and teacher, advocating greater equality, mutuality, and a shared authority. Chapters concentrate on issues of speech, student writing, interpretive agency, and changes in the discipline. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sonja K. Foss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538131048
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inviting Understanding written by Sonja K. Foss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative reference work designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin. This theory challenges the conventional conception of rhetoric as persuasion and defines rhetoric as an invitation to understanding as a means to create a relationship rooted in equality, immanent value, and self-determination. Rather than celebrating argumentation, division, and winning, invitational rhetoric encourages rhetors to listen across differences, to engage in dialogue, and to try to understand positions different from their own. Organized into the three categories of foundations, extensions, and applications, Inviting Understanding is a compilation of published articles and new essays that explore and expand the theory. The book provides readers with access to a wide range of resources about this revolutionary theory in areas such as community organizing, social justice activism, social media, film, graffiti, institutional and team decision-making, communication and composition pedagogy, and interview protocols.

Author : Tamara Girardi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669953
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom written by Tamara Girardi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture. Accessible to readers of all levels, it captures a diverse audience and tends to adapt to the big screen in an exciting way. With its wide readership, YAL sparks interesting discussions inside and outside of the classroom. This collection of new essays examines how YAL has impacted college composition courses, primarily focusing on the first year. Contributors discuss popular YA stories, their educational potential, and possibilities for classroom discussion and exercise.

Author : Andrea A. Lunsford
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 148334343X
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies written by Andrea A. Lunsford and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies surveys the latest advances in rhetorical scholarship, synthesizing theories and practices across major areas of study in the field and pointing the way for future studies. Edited by Andrea A. Lunsford and Associate Editors Kirt H. Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly, the Handbook aims to introduce a new generation of students to rhetorical study and provide a deeply informed and ready resource for scholars currently working in the field.

Author : Zan Meyer Goncalves
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809388529
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom written by Zan Meyer Goncalves and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the complexities of literacy development and personal ethos to the teaching of composition, Zan Meyer Goncalves challenges writing teachers to consider ethos as a series of identity performances shaped by the often-inequitable social contexts of their classrooms and communities. Using the rhetorical experiences of students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender, she proposes a new way of thinking about ethos that addresses the challenges of social justice, identity, and transfer issues in the classroom. Goncalves offers an innovative approach to teaching identity performance theory bound by social contexts. She applies this new approach to theories of specificity and intersectionality, illustrating how teachers can help students redefine the relationship between their social identities and their writing. She also addresses bringing social activism and identity politics into the classroom, helping writers make transfers across rhetorical contexts and linking students' interests to public conversations. Theoretical and practical, Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom provides teachers of first-year and advanced composition studies with useful, detailed assignments based in specific identity performance. Goncalves offers techniques to subvert oppressive language practices, while encouraging students to recognize themselves as writers, citizens, and active participants in their own educations and communities.

Author : Julie Jung
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809388502
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts written by Julie Jung and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this precise and provocative treatise, Julie Jung augments the understanding and teaching of revision by arguing that the process should entail changing attitudes rather than simply changing texts. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts proposes and demonstrates alternative ways of reading, writing, and teaching that hear silences in such a way as to generate personal, pedagogical, and professional revisions. As both a challenge to prevailing revision pedagogies and an elaboration of contemporary feminist rhetorics, the volume encourages students and instructors to examine their identities as scholars of rhetoric and composition and to question how and why revision is taught. Jung analyzes feminist texts to identify a revisionary rhetoric that is, at its core, most concerned with creating a space in which to engage productively with issues of difference. This synthesis of feminist theory and revision studies yields a pedagogically useful definition of feminist rhetoric, through which Jung examines the insights afforded by multigenre texts in various related contexts: the academic essay, the discipline of rhetoric and composition studies, feminist composition, and the subfields of English studies including rhetoric and composition, literature, and creative writing. Jung illustrates how multigenre texts demand innovative methods of inquiry because they do not fit the conventions of any single genre. Because genre is inextricably tied to the construction of social identity, she explains, multigenre texts also offer a means for understanding and revising disciplinary identity. Boldly making a case for the revisionary power of multigenre texts, Jung retheorizes revision as a process of disrupting textual clarity so that differences can be identified, contended with, and perhaps understood. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts makes great strides towards defining feminist rhetoric and ascertaining how revision can be theorized, not just practiced. Jung also provides a multigenre epilogue that explores the usefulness of reconceiving revision as a progression towards wholeness rather than perfection.

Author : Geneva Smitherman
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809388995
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Diversity in the Classroom written by Geneva Smitherman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s no secret that, in most American classrooms, students are expected to master standardized American English and the conventions of Edited American English if they wish to succeed. Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice works to realign these conceptions through a series of provocative yet evenhanded essays that explore the ways we have enacted and continue to enact our beliefs in the integrity of the many languages and Englishes that arise both in the classroom and in professional communities. Edited by Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva, the collection was motivated by a survey project on language awareness commissioned by the National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. All actively involved in supporting diversity in education, the contributors address the major issues inherent in linguistically diverse classrooms: language and racism, language and nationalism, and the challenges in teaching writing while respecting and celebrating students’ own languages. Offering historical and pedagogical perspectives on language awareness and language diversity, the essays reveal the nationalism implicit in the concept of a “standard English,” advocate alternative training and teaching practices for instructors at all levels, and promote the respect and importance of the country’s diverse dialects, languages, and literatures. Contributors include Geneva Smitherman, Victor Villanueva, Elaine Richardson, Victoria Cliett, Arnetha F. Ball, Rashidah Jammi` Muhammad, Kim Brian Lovejoy, Gail Y. Okawa, Jan Swearingen, and Dave Pruett. The volume also includes a foreword by Suresh Canagarajah and a substantial bibliography of resources about bilingualism and language diversity.

Author : Arnetha F. Ball
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809326604
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Literacies Unleashed written by Arnetha F. Ball and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives. Realizing that composition is a particular form of social practice that validates some students and excludes others, Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner acknowledge that many African American students come to writing and composition classrooms with talents that are not appreciated. To empower and inform practitioners, administrators, teacher educators, and researchers, Ball and Lardner provide knowledge and strategies that will help unleash the potential of African American students and help them imagine new possibilities for their successes as writers. African American Literacies Unleashed asserts that necessary changes in theory and practice can be addressed by refocusing attention from teachers’ knowledge deficits to the processes through which teachers engage information relevant to culturally informed pedagogy. Providing strategies for unlearning racism in the classroom and changing the status quo, this volume stresses the development and maintenance of a real sense of teaching efficacy—teachers’ beliefs in their abilities to connect with and work effectively with all students—and reflective optimism—teachers’ informed expectations that all students have the potential to succeed.

Author : Rhonda C. Grego
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809327724
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces written by Rhonda C. Grego and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhonda C. Grego and Nancy S. Thompson argue that because the studio is physically and institutionally "outside but alongside" both students' other coursework and the hierarchy of the institution, it represents a "thirdspace," a unique position in which to effect institutional change. Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces provides an alternative approach to traditional basic writing courses that can be adopted in educational institutions of all types and at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.