College Composition and Communication Feb 2018

Reading Coles Reading Themes: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing

Peter Wayne Moe

Abstract

Epideictic rhetoric reifies and reshapes the shared values of a community, and in this article, I reread William E. Coles Jr.’sThe Plural Ias showing forth a classroom built upon epideictic rhetoric, his own epideictic pedagogy asking that teachers of writing engage student work not expecting to be persuaded but as observers of rhetorical display.

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College Composition and Communication
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2018-02-01
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10.58680/ccc201829489
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