Rhetoric Review Apr 2024

Rhetorical Education in Complicated Times: Poly-logical Invention and Written Discourse for the 21 st Century University

Justin K. Rademaekers West Chester University

Abstract

Dialogism and dialectical knowledge making have long subtended theories of written discourse and therefore the design of rhetoric and writing curricula. As universities move toward interdisciplinary and applied disciplinary epistemologies, theories of written discourse based in the dialogical and dialectical tradition require new scrutiny. This article synthesizes scholarship from the rhetoric of science, written communication theory, and transdisciplinary theory to develop a new poly-logical and poly-lectical approach to written communication for interdisciplinary discourse. The article concludes with examples of hermeneutic and heuristic invention strategies for rhetoric and composition pedagogy that can encourage poly-logical and poly-lectical inquiry on contemporary interdisciplinary issues.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
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2024-04-02
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2024.2318067
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