Robert Samuels

Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality, neutrality, and empiricism, staging key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000259926
• Artikelnr.: 60116094

Autorenporträt

Robert Samuels teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of 15 books, including Why Public Higher Education Should be Free.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Reason
Rhetoric
Writing
and Global Progress 2. Should We Teach Grammar? 3. Is the Teaching of Writing Racist? 4. The Rejection of Neutrality 5. The Politics of Reason in Academic Discourse 6. Ethos
Logos
Pathos
and Catharsis 7. Teaching Post-Truth Rhetoric: From South Park to Trump 8. Rorty
Zizek
and Pragmatic Idealism 9. Teaching Reason in the Age of Unreason 10. Conclusion