Drawing from a qualitative study, we share findings that demonstrate how students articulate and express emotion in reflection. As they reflect on their writing identities, processes and products, peer and instructor feedback, and assess their work, the students in our study routinely discuss their emotions. Our essay closes with pedagogical strategies for helping students reflect on their thinking and feeling about writing.

Abstract This essay considers civil rights mass meetings as rhetorical events that operated with doubled purpose. Surveying three 1960s civil rights scenes, the study reveals how meetings provided spaces to recharge and regroup at the same time that they functioned as sites for countermovement engagement. Centering attention on this fluid movement among purposes offers insights into strategies activists devised for double-voicing. For the speakers and meetings analyzed here, metonymy, parrhesia, and religious reframing provided rhetors with modes for exploiting outsiders’ presence at these events while continuing to use the meeting for their own ends.

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Civil rights activist Sarah Patton Boyle initially encountered great difficulty when communicating about race and enacting civil rights resistance as a privileged white Southerner. This essay reveals how Boyle overcame this rhetorical failure by turning to the spiritual memoir and in so doing remade her career as a writer and a speaker. Through the concepts of confession and conversion inherent in this spiritual genre, Boyle successfully identified with white and black audiences who had previously ignored or criticized her, created a viable ethos, and delivered a sophisticated faith-based argument for social change.

Book Review| June 01 2016 You Can’t Padlock an Idea: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932–1961 You Can’t Padlock an Idea: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932–1961. By Stephen Schneider. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014; pp. 208. $39.95 cloth. Jessica Enoch; Jessica Enoch University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Elizabeth Ellis Elizabeth Ellis University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (2): 356–359. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jessica Enoch, Elizabeth Ellis; You Can’t Padlock an Idea: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932–1961. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2016; 19 (2): 356–359. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0356 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 CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.