Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University

ISBN-13: 9780367568856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 138 str.

Robert Samuels

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.