Megan Dodd Little

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San Francisco State University

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Megan Dodd Little's work travels primarily in Rhetoric (100% of indexed citations) · 1 indexed citations.

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  1. Anticipating Delivery: A Case Study of Domestic Partner Benefit (DPB) Advocacy
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    Delivery has often been treated as an afterthought of the “real work” of writing. This article demonstrates how writers in some contexts must think very carefully about delivery from the very beginning of their process. Tracking collaborative writers’ talk, this article demonstrates how a group of writers works to anticipate delivery by repeatedly constructing delivery narratives—that is, stories about the future handoff of their document to audiences. In a complex case of LGBT policy advocacy, the writers weave together multiple delivery narratives in order to achieve consensus, revealing the influence of discursive voices, perspectives, personal and institutional histories, and disciplinary training on the group’s rhetorical strategies. This article also considers how an experienced administrative lawyer constructs delivery narratives, revealing an expert’s strategy to try to get a legitimate hearing for a novel legal interpretation.

    doi:10.1177/0741088316685730