The public work of rhetoric : citizen-scholars and civic engagement / edited by John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan ; foreword by Gerard A. Hauser.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2010.
Description
xvi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Studies in rhetoric/communication. [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Introduction: the space to work in public life / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman
    • Rhetoric revealed. Should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Carolyn R. Miller
    • Power, publics, and the rhetorical uses of democracy / Candice Rai
    • The public work of critical political communication / M. Lane Bruner
    • Rhetorical engagement in the cultural economies of cities / John M. Ackerman
    • Democracy and its limitations / Ralph Cintron
    • Rhetorical interventions. Rhetorical engagements in the scientist's process of remaking race as genetic / Celeste M. Condit
    • Going public in a disabling discourse / Linda Flower
    • Sophists for social change / David J. Coogan
    • Knowledge work with the Cherokee Nation: the pedagogy of engaging publics in a praxis of new media / Ellen Cushman and Erik Green
    • On being useful: rhetoric and the work of engagement / Jeffrey T. Grabill
    • Remaking rhetoric in universities and publics. Finding a place for school in rhetoric's public turn / David Fleming
    • Mediating differences / Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller
    • A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education: "sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / Diana George and Paula Mathieu
    • The community literacy advocacy project: civic revival through rhetorical activity in rural Arkansas / David A. Jolliffe
    • The prospects for the public work of rhetoric: a coda on codes / Susan C. Jarratt.
    Other title(s)
    Project Muse UPCC books
    ISBN
    • 9781570039317 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 1570039313 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2010014494
    OCLC
    606235146
    RCP
    H - S
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