Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition: Essays in Honor of Theresa Jarnagin Enos

by Borrowman,Shane

• ISBN13: 9780805863963
• ISBN10: 0805863966
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition comprehensively examines the development of rhetoric and composition, using the writings of Theresa Jarnagin Enos as points of departure for studies of broader trends. Chapters explore such topics as the historical relations of rhetoric and composition, their evolution within programs of study, and Enos's research on gender. The volume presents the growing disjunction between rhetoric and composition and paints a compelling picture of the current state of both disciplines as well as their origins.

Author Biography

Shane Borrowman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches courses in alternative rhetorics of memoir, freelance writing and editing, and the influences of the Arabic world on classical and medieval rhetoric. Stuart C. Brown is Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at New Mexico State University where he writes on and teaches courses in research methodology, history of rhetoric, ethics, and rhetorical criticism. He has published in topics as diverse as medical rhetoric, environmental rhetoric, writing program administration, modern rhetorical theory, and technical communication. Thomas P. Miller is Associate Provost at The University of Arizona. He teaches political rhetoric and composition as well as seminars in histories of rhetoric in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English doctoral Program.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction: At the Conjunction of Rhetoric and Composition-The Contributions of Theresa J. Enos	p. 1
Personal and Professional Histories of Rhetoric and Composition
Road Rhetoric: Recollecting, Recomposing, Remaneuvering	p. 13
Rhetoric Revival or Process Revolution?: Revisiting the Emergence of Composition-Rhetoric as a Discipline	p. 25
It Still Takes Phronesis: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Practical Wisdom in Online Teaching for Global Learning	p. 53
The Impossible Rhetoric: The Impossible Composition	p. 68
Section I Reflection: Recollecting and Recomposing Rhetoric	p. 80
The Place of Rhetoric in Graduate Programs
How Seriously Are We Taking Professionalization?: A Report on Graduate Curricula in Rhetoric and Composition	p. 97
Rhetoric: The Cornerstone of a Graduate Program	p. 104
Globalization, New(er) Rhetorics, and the Necessary Centrality of Both to Graduate Studies in Composition	p. 117
Section II Reflection: Traveling Time's Arrow in Rhetoric and Composition: The Janus Face of Doctoral Education	p. 137
Engendering Rhetoric
Mentoring-and (Wo)mentoring-in Composition Studies	p. 159
Theorizing Service, Servicing Theory	p. 168
Constructing History in a Film About Rhetoric: The Black Female Chorus in Good Night, and Good Luck	p. 182
Section III Reflection: Reflections on Engendering Rhetoric	p. 195
Civic Rhetorics
A Call for Comity	p. 207
The Secret Composition Practices of the Ancient Spartans: A Study of "Noncivic" Classical Rhetoric	p. 236
Breast Cancer Discourses and the (Dis)articulation of Rhetorical Action	p. 248
Section IV Reflection: Three Chances to Think Both/And	p. 261
Rhetoric Beyond the Academy
"An Eternal Golden Braid": Rhetor as Audience, Audience as Rhetor	p. 275
In Search of Comity	p. 289
Do the Right Thing: The Ethos of Pathos in Environmentalists' Direct Mail Solicitations	p. 302
Pure Rhetoric	p. 315
Section V Reflection: "It Got Me Thinking": Generative Ethos and (Re)Action	p. 329
"Star Struck but Unfazed": An Interview with Theresa J. Enos	p. 346
Index	p. 361
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