Emerging Voices: Unpredictable Encounters: Religious Discourse, Sexuality, and the Free Exercise of Rhetoric

College English Jan 2013

Emerging Voices: Unpredictable Encounters: Religious Discourse, Sexuality, and the Free Exercise of Rhetoric

T J Geiger

Abstract

In this essay, I develop a pedagogical stance called the “free exercise of rhetoric” as a way to approach teaching and student writing at the intersection of LGBT and religious discourses. Through this stance, I work with students’ personal commitments and build their rhetorical competence using a process that involves encountering uncommon arguments, valuing misreading, and embracing unpredictability. I suggest the free exercise of rhetoric as a pedagogical option for taking religion seriously as a topic and identity in writing classrooms, but one that does not start from students’ personal experience with religion.

Journal: College English
Published: 2013-01-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201322112
Open Access: Closed
Topics: voice and style

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