In nineteen essays illustrating its many aspects, this book offers an argument for what it takes to construct a complete rhetorical education. The editors take an approach that is pragmatic and pluralistic, based as it is on the assumptions that a rhetorical education is not limited to teaching freshman composition (or any specific writing course) and that the contexts in which such an education occurs are not limited to classrooms. This thought-provoking volume stresses that while a rhetorical education results in the growth of writing skills, its larger goal is to foster critical thinking.

Writing & Rhetoric Book 2: Narrative 1 Teacher's Edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher's notes, and explanations. For every writing assignment, this edition also supplies diescriptions adn examples of what excellent student writing should look like, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.

Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the book should appeal to people who are interested in how students learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do when they write. Two features of engineering practice that have particular impact on the extent to which engineers recognize persuasion are identified: * a reverence for data, and * the hierarchical structure of the organizations in which engineering is most commonly done. Both of these features discourage an open recognition of persuasion. Finally, the study shows that the four co-op students learned most of what they knew about writing at work by engaging in situated practice in the workplace, rather than by attending formal classes.

"This study incorporates life history interviews along with empirical research to allow the voices of five McNair scholars to be heard. Rich details of attaining "a rhetorical education" through, around, and despite issues of being classed and gendered individuals ring loud and clear through the two collage essays included in this research (included to bring those voices to the surface). Then, these collage essays are embedded in more traditional research methods--a literature review and a detailed methodology. By combining these three forms of research, this study shows that allowing the personal to surface gives the field of Rhet/Comp a much richer, more detailed picture of what a rhetorical education is--with respect to class and gender"--Abstract.

The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education.

Writing & Rhetoric Book 1: Fable Teacher's Edition includes the comlete studetn text, as well as answer keys, teacher's notes, and explanations. For every writing assignment, this edition also supplies descriptions and examples of waht excellentstudent writing should look like, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance."

Argues for a more theoretically-informed and cogent curricular space for rhetoric in the academy. In The Realms of Rhetoric, contributors from a wide range of disciplines explore the challenges and opportunities faced in building a curricular space in the academy for rhetoric. Although rhetoric education has its roots in ancient times, the modern era has seen it fragmented into composition and public speaking, obscuring concepts, theories, and skills. Petraglia and Bahri consider the prospects for rhetoric education outside of narrow disciplinary constraints and, together with leading scholars, examine opportunities that can propel and revitalize rhetoric education at the beginning of the millennium. "The teaching of rhetoric—of how to think together and talk together and read and write together—is the most important of all vocations, and this book is a step toward uniting those of us who, under whatever disciplinary label, see it that way." — from the Foreword by Wayne C. Booth "The great strength of this book is that Petraglia and Bahri were able to collect essays that all pursue a common goal—the articulation of a common, trans-disciplinary rhetoric education—without sacrificing coherence." — Bruce McComiskey, author of Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric "Unlike many books and articles that purport to address issues of the teaching of rhetoric or rhetorical skills, this collection manages to keep its focus on pedagogy and curriculum in a way that illuminates both the problems facing rhetoric education today and the prospects for revitalizing it in the near future." — Robert Yagelski, coeditor of The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matters in Students' Lives Contributors include Deepika Bahri, Anne Beaufort, David Bleich, Wayne C. Booth, M. Lane Bruner, Michael Carter, Grant C. Cos, Ellen Cushman, Thomas J. Darwin, David Fleming, William D. Fusfield, Victoria Gallagher, Hildegard Hoeller, Walter Jost, Carolyn R. Miller, Thomas P. Miller, Rolf Norgaard, Joseph Petraglia, and John T. Scenters-Zapico.