Rhetoric of Critique/Critique of Rhetoric: Toward Critical Discursive Practices in the Academy
Nancy C. DeJoy
- School: Purdue University (0183)
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Date: 1993; pp: 242
- Advisor: Berlin, James A.
- Source: DAI-A 55/08, p. 2361, Feb 1995
- Subjects: Language, General (0679)
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- UMI Number: AAT 9501652
Abstract:
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This dissertation addresses the absence of calls for critical discursive practices within
composition studies. Examining the traditional configurations of writer (self), audience (other),
context, and text, I argue that these constructs structurally and systematically favor
noncritical operations of identification. Each Chapter critiques and then moves beyond
the terms of these constraints by revising the notions of context, subject, other, and text,
respectively for the purpose of making a space for critical discursive practices within
the contemporary context of process model composition pedagogy. The last chapter directly
discusses the implications of these revisions for process model composition pedagogy.
I find that, in the end, the move to critical practices requires the inclusion of other-than-identificatory
operations at the levels of theory, pedagogy, and practice, especially within the realms
of invention, arrangement, and revision.
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