1st Edition
Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University
By Robert Samuels
Copyright 2021
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Based 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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
