Moving student writing beyond academic discourse and into larger public spheres is a difficult task, but Christian R. Weisser s study challenges composition instructors to do just that. This highly accessible book does what no other study has attempted to do: place the most current, cutting-edge theories and pedagogies in rhetoric and composition in their intellectual and historical contexts, while at the same time offering a unique, practical theory and pedagogy of public writing for use both inside and outside of the classroom.By positing a theory of the public for composition studies, one...