College Composition and Communication
Dec 1999
Class Ethos and the Politics of Inquiry: What the Barroom Can Teach Us about the Classroom
Abstract
I want to suggest that an examination of rhetorical practices at the local bar is instructive for two reasons: (1) the barroom is predictably different from the university writing classroom; and (2) the barroom is surprisingly similar to the university writing classroom. A look at how neighborhood bars are qualitatively different from classrooms can teach us about our working-class students’ rhetorical motives, and a recognition of how they are functionally similar can teach us something about our own.
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- College Composition and Communication
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- 1999-12-01
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- 10.58680/ccc19991374
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