A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Witte, Stephen P. / Nakadate, Neil / Cherry, Roger Dennis, PUBLISHER: Souong>theong>rn Illinois University Press, Concerned with both ong>theong> nature and ong>theong> practice of discourse, ong>theong> eighteen essays collected here treat rhetoric as a dynamic enterprise of inquiry, exploration, and application, and in doing so reflect ong>Jamesong> L. Kinneavy's firm belief in ong>theong> vital relationship between ong>theong>ory and practice, his commitment to a spirit of accommodation and assimilation that promotes ong>theong> development of ever more powerful ong>theong>ories and ever more useful practices. A thorough introduction provides ong>theong> reader with clear summaries of ong>theong> essays by leading-edge ong>theong>orists, researchers, and teachers of writing and rhetoric. A "field context" for ong>theong> ideas presented in this book is provided through ong>theong> division of ong>theong> various chapters into four major sections that focus on classical rhetoric and rhetorical ong>theong>ory in historical contexts; on dimensions of discourse ong>theong>ory, aspects of discourse communities, and ong>theong> sorts of knowledge people access and use in producing written texts; on writing in school-related contexts; and on several dimensions of nonacademic writing. A fifth section contains a bibliographic survey and an appreciation of ong>Jamesong> Kinneavy's work. ong>Theong> exceptional range of ong>theong>se essays makes "A Rhetoric of Doing "an ecumenical examination of ong>theong> current state of mind in rhetoric and written communication, a survey and description of what discourse and those in ong>theong> field of discourse are, in fact, doing.