The public work of rhetoric
Subtitle: citizen-scholars and civic engagement
By: edited by John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781570039317
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The space to work in public life / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman; title: Rhetoric revealed : should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Carolyn R. Miller; title: Power, Publics, and the Rhetorical Uses of Democracy / Candice Rai; title: The Public Work of Critical Political Communication / M. Lane Bruner; title: Rhetorical Engagement in the Cultural Economies of Cities / John M. Ackerman; title: Democracy and Its Limitations / Ralph Cintron; title: Part 2: Rhetorical Interventions: Rhetorical Engagements in the Scientist's Process of Remaking Race as Genetic / Celeste M. Condit; title: Going Public in a Disabling Discourse / Linda Flower; title: Sophists for Social Change / David J. Coogan; title: Knowledge Work with the Cherokee Nation: The Pedagogy of Engaging Publics in a Praxis of New Media / Ellen Cushman and Erik Green; title: On Being Useful: Rhetoric and the Work of Engagement / Jeffrey T. Grabill; title: Part 3: Remaking Rhetoric in Universities and Publics / Finding a Place for School in Rhetoric's Public Turn / David Fleming; title: Mediating Differences /; title: Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller; title: A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education: "Sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / Diana George and Paula Mathieu; title: The Community Literacy Advocacy Project: Civic Revival through Rhetorical Activity in Rural Arkansas / David A. Jolliffe; title: The Prospects for the Public Work of Rhetoric: A Coda / Susan C. Jarratt.