“Know thy work and do it”: The Rhetorical-Pedagogical Work of Employment and Workplace Guides for Adults with “High-Functioning” Autism

College English Jul 2015

“Know thy work and do it”: The Rhetorical-Pedagogical Work of Employment and Workplace Guides for Adults with “High-Functioning” Autism

Karen Kopelson

Abstract

This article examines the rhetoric and pedagogies of employment and workplace guidebooks for adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) to demonstrate how the texts reflect and reinvent cultural desires or fantasies about contemporary employees and also work to norm real autistic employees to be closer to a neurotypical ideal. This norming is achieved in large part through the guidebooksâ€™ surprising appropriations of and appeals to rhetorical training.

Journal: College English
Published: 2015-07-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201527374
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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