The Centrality of Style

InThe Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field. Calling attention to this paradox in his forewo...

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Main Authors: Duncan, Mike (Author), M. Vanguri, Star (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] WAC Clearinghouse [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Conceptualizing Style
  • Introduction to Part One: Conceptualizing Style, Mike Duncan & Star Medzerian Vanguri
  • An Ethics of Attentions: Three Continuums of Classical and Contemporary Stylistic Manipulation for the 21st Century Composition Classroom, William C. Kurlinkus
  • Stylistic Sandcastles: Rhetorical Figures as Composition's Bucket and Spade, William FitzGerald
  • Using Stylistic Imitation in Freshman Writing Classes: The Rhetorical and Meta-Rhetorical Potential of Transitions in Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Medieval Treatises, Denise Stodola
  • Architectonics and Style, Russell Greer
  • Making Style Practically Cool and Theoretically Hip, Keith Rhodes
  • Jim Corder's Generative Ethos as Alternative to Traditional Argument, or Style's Revivification of the Writer-Reader Relationship, Rosanne Carlo
  • Teaching Style as Cultural Performance, Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • Inventio and Elocutio: Language Instruction at St. Paul's Grammar School and Today's Stylistic Classroom, Tom Pace
  • The Research Paper As Stylistic Exercise, Mike Duncan
  • Part Two: Applying Style
  • Introduction to Part Two: Applying Style, Mike Duncan & Star Medzerian Vanguri
  • Style in Academic Writing, Nora Bacon
  • Tracking Interpersonal Style: The Use of Functional Language Analysis in College Writing Instruction, Zak Lancaster
  • Multimodal Style and the Evolution of Digital Writing Pedagogy, Moe Folk
  • Voice, Transformed: The Potentialities of Style Pedagogy in the Teaching of Creative Nonfiction, Crystal Fodrey
  • Fighting Styles: The Pedagogical Implications of Applying Contemporary Rhetorical Theory to the Persuasive Prose of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays, Luke Redington
  • Style and the Professional Writing Curriculum: Teaching Stylistic Fluency through Science Writing, Jonathan Buehl
  • Toward a Pedagogy of Psychic Distance, Erik Ellis
  • What Scoring Rubrics Teach Students (and Teachers) about Style, Star Medzerian Vanguri