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.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2018-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201829489
Open Access
Closed
Topics
rhetorical theory

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