Abstract

This essay examines rhetorical instruction and student writing at Texas Woman's University, a public women's college. Unlike their peers at elite, private women's colleges in the East, students at TWU were consistently encouraged to write and speak in public forums, to take part in political discourse, and to think of themselves as rhetors. The vocational focus of the school meant that the campus could never serve as a cloister, and the ever-present support of activist clubwomen gave students powerful role models for participating in the public sphere.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2003-07-01
DOI
10.1207/s15327981rr2203_03
Open Access
Closed

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  1. College Composition and Communication
  2. College English
  3. Rhetoric Review
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