College Composition and Communication Jul 2023

Post-Policy

Nathan DeProspo

Abstract

In this article, I will attempt an unbuilding of a history of composition—a history of policy in/as language—to see how claims of policy (pedagogical, historiographical, conceptual) influence, complicate, or even reverse the direction of certain theoretical projects in rhetoric and composition

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2023-07-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202332521
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rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy
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