Moving Beyond Academic Discourse : Composition Studies and the Public Sphere Paperback / softback
by Christian R. Weisser
Paperback / softback
Description
Moving student writing beyond academic discourse and into larger public spheres is a difficult task, but Christian R.
Weisser's study challenges composition instructors to do just that.
This highly accessible book does what no other study has attempted to do: place the most current, cutting-edge theories and pedagogies in rhetoric and composition in their intellectual and historical contexts, while at the same time offering a unique, practical theory and pedagogy of public writing for use both inside and outside of the classroom.
By positing a theory of the public for composition studies, one which envisions the public sphere as a highly contested, historically textured, multilayered, and sometimes contradictory site, Weisser offers a new approach to the roles that compositionists might assume in their attempts to initiate progressive political and social change.
After first providing a historical context that situates composition's recent interest in public writing, Weisser next examines recent theories in composition studies that consider writing an act of social engagement before outlining a more complex theory of the public based on the work of Jurgen Habermas.
The resulting re-envisioning of the public sphere expands current conversations in rhetoric and composition concerning the public.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, references, index
- Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2002
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- ISBN:9780809324163
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, references, index
- Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780809324163