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Rhetorical strategies and genre conventions in literary studies [electronic resource] : teaching and writing in the disciplines / Laura Wilder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilder, Laura, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersections between scholarly literary criticism and undergraduate writing in introductory literature courses. Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies is the first examination of rhetorical practice in the research and teaching of literary study and a detailed assessment of the ethics and efficacy of explicit instruction in the rhetorical strategies and genre conventions of the discipline. Using rhetorical analysis,
- Contents:
- Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism" Revisited: Mistaken Critics, Complex Contexts, and Social Justice; 2. "You Wouldn't Want to Introduce That to Undergraduate Students": Literature Professors' Views of Disciplinarity and Student Discourse; 3. "This Is How We Do Things": Professors' Expectations for Student Writing; 4. "Some Tools to Take with Them": Making Disciplinary Conventions Explicit
- 5. "Other Professors, They Assume You Already Know This Stuff": Student Views of Disciplinary Enculturation and Explicating Conventions6. "There Were Negative Results for Me": Faculty Resistance to Explicit Instruction in Disciplinary Rhetoric; Notes; References; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-88173-9
- 9786613723048
- 0-8093-3094-6
- OCLC:
- 808215591
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