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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"current-traditional rhetoric"”.
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A physiological definition of style: science, religion, and women���s writings in the early American republic
… of Christianity. This curious combination of rhetoric and science in the service of God during the early American Republic is the heart of my dissertation project. My dissertation brings together early American evangelical Protestantism, Enlightenment rhetoric, and Benjamin Rush’s …
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The role of literature in teaching freshman composition
… paradigm for teaching writing and a revival of rhetorical studies have led many institutions to exclude the reading of imaginative literature from freshman composition courses.This dissertation argues, however, that to include literature in freshman composition is both desirable and possible. …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… of the historical relationship between rhetorical theory and compositional practices in both medieval and 21st century multimodal texts. Rather than further widening the schism between textual and visual rhetorics and compositional practices, I argue that these modes cannot be theorized …
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
… have begun to look back to the classical rhetorical past for answers to modern dilemmas in composition teaching. Several textbooks have been published that focus their teaching of college composition on the classical tradition. While the movement to revitalize classical rhetoric is gaining …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… nonetheless reflect fundamental inadequacies in current educational theories and practices that have evolved over centuries of curricular, cultural, and socioeconomic change. Current theories and practices in higher education, specifically general education, reflect a misunderstanding of both the …