Rhetoric Review Sep 1990

Essayist literacy and the rhetoric of deproduction

John Trimbur Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Abstract

sharply and clearly than I had been able the pedagogical problem I want to explore here. He or she noted, with an undisguised exasperation I understood all too well, God knows, the seniors in my personal essay class still seem to want to read even the best of essays as if the essays belong to [a] 'monological regime of silence and facticity' (citing one of the phrases that appears below). This comment was

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Rhetoric Review
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1990-09-01
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10.1080/07350199009388913
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