Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2008 Open Access

The Politics of Persuasion versus the Construction of Alternative Communities: Zines in the Writing Classroom

Aneil Rallin ; Ian Barnard

Abstract

We discuss how studying and creating zines in our composition classes allows our students to negotiate and explore the complexities of writing without the compulsions of many of the politically problematic commonplaces of composition pedagogy. We use zines to examine the unique ways in which their rhetorical devices address conflicts around questions of audience and diversity, as well as the particular questions that the zines raise about the politics of persuasion, our own writing practices, writing strategies that the zines suggest to us, and the construction of alternative communities.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2008-04-01
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10.59236/rjv7i3pp46-57
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  2. the earlier units that provide students with an understanding of zines and zine culture
  3. Requiring students to produce a collaborative zine gives students the chance to go agains…
  4. students choose the subject matter of the zines they create, and since the content of zin…
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