Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the G, Samuels Hardcover..

Name: Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the G, Samuels Hardcover..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing UniversityAuthor(s): Robert Samuels\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367568856, 978-0367568856\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nBased on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish, Asao Inoue, Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek, and Steven Pinker, this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing, grammar, and argumentation foster marginalization, oppression, and the restriction of student agency. Instead, it argues that the best way to educate and empower a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of .