Pub Date : 2021-01-11DOI: 10.37514/pra-b.2021.1145
Omar Yacoub
Even though this grading system responds to the needs of the diverse student population of online classes, the authors acknowledge its limitation in online settings and provide strategies for a successful implementation. [...]Pandey, in chapter eight, addresses the importance and challenges of building a community in online classes through pedagogical humor. [...]the last chapter, Ledgerwood, creates a connection between HyperDocs, the PARS approach, and multimodality, promoting a user-centered approach to online writing instruction. [...]this edited collection responds to the growing need for online writing instruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]this collection presents a wide range of voices, including professors, instructors, and graduate students working in different online writing contexts such as technical writing, first year writing, and community-engaged writing courses. [...]even though the chapters do not follow a specific organizational pattern, they all follow a pattern that starts with presentations and discussions of their experiences followed by recommendations for readers to implement and extend their practices.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.37514/atd-b.2016.0933
D. Jensen
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{"title":"Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics","authors":"Nolan P. Goetzinger","doi":"10.5860/choice.195959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.195959","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246415,"journal":{"name":"Composition Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116642906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetorics","authors":"Ben Harley","doi":"10.5860/choice.192133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.192133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246415,"journal":{"name":"Composition Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126299932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.37514/atd-b.2016.0933.2.03
Aja Y. Martínez
This essay in counterstory suggests a method by which to incorporate critical race theory (CRT) in rhetoric and composition, as a contribution of other(ed) perspectives toward an ongoing conversation in the field about narrative, dominant ideology, and their intersecting influence on programmatic and curricular standards and practices. As a narrative form, counterstory functions as a method for marginalized people to intervene in research methods that would form “master narratives” based on ignorance and on assumptions about minoritized peoples like Chican@s.2 Through the formation of counterstories or those stories that document the persistence of racism and other forms of subordination, voices from the margins become the voices of authority in the researching and relating of our own experiences. Counterstory serves as a natural extension of inquiry for theorists whose research recognizes and incorporates, as data, lived and embodied experiences of people of color. This essay argues it is thus crucial to use a narrative methodology that counters other methods that seek to dismiss or decenter racism and those whose lives are daily affected by it.
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{"title":"Beyond the Pulpit: Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press","authors":"Paul R Dahlgren","doi":"10.5860/choice.49-5450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-5450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246415,"journal":{"name":"Composition Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123560331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asa scholarly community, it is not only important that we theorize, analyze, and interpret communicative acts but also that we educate. In her newbook,Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600–1900, Jane Donawerth manages successfully to fulfıll both obligations. She adds several women to the history of rhetorical theory, analyzes their texts with sophistication and detail, and interprets for her reading audience the signifıcance of their contributions. She does this all while suggesting ways in which we might improve our own pedagogy. The book is the most recent edition to the series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms, an interdisciplinary project seeking to “connect rhetorical inquiry with contemporary academic and social concerns.”While her study is an important contribution to our understanding of modern rhetorical theory, perhaps her most unique contribution is the assertion that theories of the past can be lessons in pedagogical technique today. Donawerth writes, “While there is not a direct link from the women’s tradition of rhetoric to these examples of contemporary composition pedagogy, nevertheless, we can yet learn something about our own teaching practices from a tradition that taught women how to enter the conversation” (145). Donawerth carefully argues that the women she writes about are influential in the history of rhetoric and that their theories might inform our own scholarly activities today. The study of women and their rhetorical contributions can provide insight into communication theory and social contexts. Donawerth’s analysis accomplishes both of these tasks in several ways. Donawerth writes her self-described “revisionist, feminist, critical or ‘constructionist’ history of women’s rhetorical theory” (9) by analyzing dialogues, conduct books, pamphlets, speeches, elocution handbooks, and other forms of communication written by women for women from 1600 to 1900. In her study, Donawerth describes the rise and fall of a “counterdiscourse of women’s BOOK REVIEWS 213
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