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Peter Wayne Moe – College Composition and Communication, 2018
Epideictic rhetoric reifies and reshapes the shared values of a community, and in this article, I reread William E. Coles Jr.'s "The Plural I" as showing forth a classroom built upon epideictic rhetoric, his own epideictic pedagogy asking that teachers of writing engage student work not expecting to be persuaded but as observers of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Teacher Expectations of Students, Rhetoric
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Melzer, Dan – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this essay I present the results of a national study of over 2,000 writing assignments from college courses across disciplines. Drawing on James Britton's multidimensional discourse taxonomy and recent work in genre studies, I analyze the rhetorical features and genres of the assignments and consider the significance of my findings through the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Audiences, Writing Instruction
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Jackson, Brian; Wallin, Jon – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube have made it likely that students participate in online back-and-forth exchanges that influence their rhetorical literacy. Because of the back-and-forth nature of online communities, we turn to the procedural, critical, and progressive qualities of dialectic as a means of accounting for what makes public…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Computer Mediated Communication