In September 2005, I found myself, in late middle age and more than two decades into my career, feeling like a student upon first studying abroad: general culture shock enhanced by academic culture shock. Coming from a writing center and writing program steeped in decades of US theory and pedagogy, I entered a space that, while partially informed by that theory and pedagogy, necessarily reflected a centuries-old British academic tradition and existed within a highly charged

This essay reflects on a three-part assignment in which students plan, design, and reflect on a text-based videogame. Created originally for a composition course focused on rhetoric and videogames, the assignment lends itself to teaching about the writing process, especially invention and revision, teaching procedural rhetorics, and teaching technical communication concepts such as iterative design and usability. This essay is coauthored by the instructor with two students who took the course in different semesters, highlighting the collaborative nature of even solo-authored game design, as well as how making games can help students take up rhetorical concerns in other genres.

Hurricane Katrina had a tremendous impact not only on the Gulf Coast but on individuals who lived and worked in her disastrous aftermath. I was an assistant professor of social work at LSU when Katrina disrupted my life and career. I recall vividly the first hours, days, and weeks after the storm. I was asked to volunteer in a local hospital emergency room with highly traumatized evacuees, and I, not unlike many other relief workers, developed Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) symptoms. To cope and heal, I turned to scholarship and research. This is a reflection on how Katrina has defined my professional life for the past 10 years.

Much recent discussion of ‘academic literacies’ has focussed upon the ways in which students are accultured into appropriate discourses and genres in the academy. This may be particularly true where a discipline has a very strong sense of lexicon and content. In awareness of this, semi-structured interviews were carried out in the spring of 2009 with three highly experienced academic writers in the department of Accounting and Finance at the Manchester Business School. The main focus of this paper is on academic literacy practices. The results of the interviews are discussed in this paper, which examines the relationship between experienced writers and their discourse community, the norms within which they work, the place for creativity, and the extent to which each of these may be negotiated. It will firstly consider the concepts of ‘discourse community’ and ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP), before discussing notions of creativity and ideas-generation as a means of informing the academic work that these writers develop.

As a field, creative writing must reject its traditional image of “uselessness” and realize its anticapitalist, antiprivatizing potential as a creator of public space. In part, this move would involve teaching students to question traditional notions of influence, as well as the modernist concept of the author as a lone,autonomous individual.

Research Article| January 01 2008 Shame and Ambiguity in Plato's Gorgias R. Bensen Cain R. Bensen Cain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philosophy & Rhetoric (2008) 41 (3): 212–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/25655314 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation R. Bensen Cain; Shame and Ambiguity in Plato's Gorgias. Philosophy & Rhetoric 1 January 2008; 41 (3): 212–237. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25655314 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressPhilosophy & Rhetoric Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2008 The Pennsylvania State University2008The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Review Article| October 01 2003 Responses from the Editors of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism William E. Cain; William E. Cain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Laurie Finke; Laurie Finke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Barbara Johnson; Barbara Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Vincent B. Leitch; Vincent B. Leitch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John McGowan; John McGowan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey J. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pedagogy (2003) 3 (3): 468–478. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-3-3-468 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation William E. Cain, Laurie Finke, Barbara Johnson, Vincent B. Leitch, John McGowan, Jeffrey J. Williams; Responses from the Editors of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Pedagogy 1 October 2003; 3 (3): 468–478. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-3-3-468 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsPedagogy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2003 Duke University Press2003 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Roundtable: : The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism You do not currently have access to this content.

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This book is a unique, long-needed comprehensive study of whole-discourse form going beyond traditional prescriptions. Ancient and contemporary innovations are combined with a new theory and practical application. The author rescues the organization of persuasive/explanatory prose from long neglect and unimaginative traditional formulas. She demonstrates a new theory of form fluency in analyses of student texts and applies it in new 'form heuristics' that go beyond outlining. The main audience for this book will be professors and graduate students in the growing discipline of rhetoric/composition, or any teacher or writer interested in new ideas about organizing discourse.

Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance by Nancy S. Struever.Chicago: U of Chicago P. 1992. xiv + 246 pp. The Rhetoric and Morality of Philosophy by Seth Benardete. Chicago: U of Chicago P. 1991. 205 pp. Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Michael K. Gilbertson. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 1992. 257 pp. Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers by Stephen Doheny‐Farina.Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992; 279 pp. The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens by Jacqueline de Romilly. Trans. Janet Lloyd. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1992. 260 pp. Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Development and Interpretation by Richard H. Haswell. Dallas: Southern Methodist U P. 1991. 412 pp.

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Donald M. Murray, Write to Learn. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 229 pages. What Makes Writing Good: A Multiperspective. Ed. William E. Coles, Jr., and James Vopat. D. C. Heath and Company, 1985. xxiii + 360 pages. Leonard A. Podis and Joanne M. Podis, Writing: Invention, Form, and Style. Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984. 558 pages.

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