Book Review: Miller and McVee’s Multimodal Composing in Classrooms
"The editors and authors of the chapters included in Multimodal Composing in Classrooms: Learning and Teaching for the Digital World show how multimodal composing has become an indispensible new...
View ArticleBook Review: Gries’ Still Life with Rhetoric
"In the ongoing quest to account for rhetoric’s “dynamic and distributed dimensions,” then, Still Life with Rhetoric contributes a robust new materialist methodology to the burgeoning scholarly...
View ArticleTwenty-Five Years of Faith in Writing: Religion and Composition, 1992-2017
"As our bibliography of roughly 200 items reveals, composition has long been readying itself for an encounter with religion. Though religious discourse has presented many challenges to our field’s...
View ArticleBloodstained, Unpacking the Affect of a Kickstarter Success
"Using Michael Warner and Christian Lundberg as a frame, I argue the best Kickstarters mobilize their publics’ affect via meaningful tropes baked into their project’s pitch while using synecdoche to...
View ArticleLeBron’s Essay and the Circulation of Regional Rhetoric
"Just as The Essay wouldn’t be The Essay without LeBron, The Essay wouldn’t be The Essay without NE Ohio. What comes to matter in circulation, as a result of circulation, is that The Essay is marked by...
View Article“There is Already Something Wrong”: Toward a Rhetorical Framework for Aging
"It is critical that scholars explore not only the emergent movement to end aging but also the phenomenon of aging itself, and that they do so from humanistic as well as scientific perspectives."
View ArticleEverybody Will Be Hip and Rich: Neoliberal Discourse in Silicon Valley
"A techno-utopian style, the aestheticization of new technology, and the valorization of perpetual revolution represent a shift away from the managerial and risk-oriented realism of prevailing free...
View ArticleWhat Counts as Inclusive?: Articulating Writing Program Stances on Divisive...
"Programmatic positions statements are a tool for generating and shaping the discourse of a program or, at the very least, making clear what a program’s expectations of writing teachers are so that...
View ArticleDiversity, Technology, and Composition: Honoring Students’ Multimodal Home...
"Media support particular modalities over others, and formally shape and ideologically infuse products based on their affordances. Hence, students must be able to analyze rhetorical contexts while...
View ArticleThe Racial Veil: Small Government Rhetoric, Neoliberalism, and School...
"Expanding on this link between the Southern Strategy and neoliberalism, I argue proponents of municipal schools in Shelby County, TN, deployed a small government rhetoric of freedom and a neoliberal...
View ArticleVol. 6.2: Rhetorics, Politics, Technologies
"Our new issue features articles on such a range of research, it's hard to write about them all at once. Articles here focus on pedagogy, students’ rights, investigations of public rhetorics, and the...
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