Rhetoric, Service, and Social Justice

Susan Swan Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

This article looks at how the discipline of rhetoric may be helpful when thinking about methods for social justice. Specifically, it explores how rhetoric and composition can help those interested in social justice to construct knowledge that is both multidisciplinary and intercultural, to view the constructive processes of research participants, and to develop reflective research methods. One such method may be the Community Problem-Solving Dialogue, a rhetorically strategic method for sharing and building knowledge between the community and university. Specifically, this article studies how students in graduate policy courses both successfully and unsuccessfully used the strategies in the Community Problem-Solving Dialogue in community-university collaborations.

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Written Communication
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2002-01-01
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10.1177/074108830201900104
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  1. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric

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