Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life
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About This Book
A Responsive Rhetorical Art explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical actionâthe productive knowledge building required to compose and to leverage texts, broadly construed, for the purposes of public life marked by shrinking public resources, cultural conflict, and deferred hope. Here, composition and literacy learning hold an important and distinctive cultural promise: the capacity to invent with other people new ways forward in light of their own interests and values and in the face of obstacles that could not have otherwise been predicted. Distributed across publicly situated strangers, including citizen-educators, this work engages a persistent challenge of early rhetorical uptake in public life: that what might become public and shared is often tacit and contested. The book's approach combines attention to local cases (with a transnational student organization, the Nipmuck Chaubunagungamaug, and the South Sudanese diaspora in Phoenix) with a revisable guide for taking up wise action and methods for uncovering elusive institutional logics.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Enlivening Early Rhetorical Uptake alongside Others
- Part 1: Situating a Responsive Rhetorical Art
- Part 2: Actors Taking up a Responsive Rhetorical Art
- Part 3: A Responsive Rhetorical Art: Why Now?
- Part 4: Educators Helping Students and Institutions Support a Responsive Rhetorical Art
- Part 5: A Practical Guide
- Appendix 1: Phase 1: Hillaryâs Inquiry into Institutional Logics
- Appendix 2: Sample What-if Module for Internsâ Website
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index