College English Jul 2007

Texts of Our Institutional Lives: Performing the Rhetorical Freak Show: Disability, Student Writing, and College Admissions

Amy Vidali

Abstract

Freak-show theories developed in disability studies can help us analyze how students with disabilities rhetorically represent these in college admissions essays. In particular, such theories draw attention to the social conditions that affect how disabilities are conceived and treated as well as depicted.

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College English
Published
2007-07-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20075874
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rhetorical criticism disability studies affect and writing
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  1. Stuckey (2013)
    In Pursuit of the Common Life: Rhetoric and Education at the New York State Asy…
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  2. Moe (2012)
    Revealing Rather Than Concealing Disability: The Rhetoric of Parkinson's Advoca…
    Rhetoric Review
  3. Vidali (2009)
    Rhetorical Hiccups: Disability Disclosure in Letters of Recommendation
    Rhetoric Review

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