Advanced Composition Advanced Composition 372. PN171.4 R44 Rhetorical theory and research in writing can enhance advanced writing courses.
Advanced students are capable of appreciating empirical research.
They identify, for example, with the problems attested to by writers in protocol analyses and learn from the research on the effects of revision. Testimony by professional writers can encourage students to see the connection between writing and their own disciplines and careers. Grounding in the history of rhetoric reinforces students' sense of the importance and value of speaking to real audiences. The theories of Plato and others can be effectively applied to current examples of attempted persuasion. Research on heuristics can be an antidote to the current-traditional model that most students learned in freshman composition.