Reviewed are Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric by Paul Butler, and Performing Prose: The Study and Practice of Style in Composition by Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth.

Even as writing centers have proliferated across American campuses, writing center discourse has been characterized by deep uncertainty. In a provocative, signature moment, Terranee Riley in his 1994 article "The Unpromising Future of the Writing Center" took a retrospective look at the writing center movement and made a gloomy prediction of its future. What he feared most was that the revolutionary potential of writing centers was ending, about to be replaced by a bland era of "business as usual" (21). This would happen because writing centers would progress in finding an "institutional niche" (26). Riley noted that academic disciplines go through developmental stages before achieving institutional recognition, and he recalled how the early teaching of American literature lacked an academic status equal with the study of British and ancient classics. Unfortunately, in Riley's view, once American literature gained recognition as an academic field, it lost an initial, non-elitist, "revolutionary energy"

Abstract: Eberhard the German's Laborintus, the first of the artes poetriae to be printed, has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Both Kelly and Murphy have noticed that the work conveys a pedagogical emphasis. This essay, however, demonstrates that Laborintusis not merely a manual for teachers of verse. Rather, the work is a delightful maze of verse, grammar, and rhetoric, a labyrinth of learning containing an allegorical account of grammar,poesy, and rhetoric. On one level, the rhetorical figures are used as inventional schemes for the composition of verse in proper meter. However, the examples used in Eberhard's account of the rhetorical figures also contain Christian homilies on faith and action that are exemplary primers for teachers. The homilies in tum underscore Eberhard's pedagogical theory, which is ultimately the key to his labyrinth.

This article proposes a system for document organization based on cueing and page formatting techniques. The logical and systematic use of cueing and formatting creates a visual hierarchy organizing and signalling information for the reader. When the proposed system is properly applied, the result is increased reading speeds, increased ease of access and increased comprehension.

Research Article| February 01 1991 Identitas, Similitudo, and Contrarietas in Gervasius of Melkley's Ars poetica: A Stasis of Style William M. Purcell William M. Purcell University of Washington, Department of Speech Communication, DL-15, Seattle, Washington 98195. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1991) 9 (1): 67–91. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1991.9.1.67 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William M. Purcell; Identitas, Similitudo, and Contrarietas in Gervasius of Melkley's Ars poetica: A Stasis of Style. Rhetorica 1 February 1991; 9 (1): 67–91. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1991.9.1.67 Download citation file: Ris (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 ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1991, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric1991 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

L. J. Morrissey, William M. Jones, Charles A. Pennel, R. E. K., Robert D. Stevick, Tom Hatton, George Doskow, Richard Henze, Ralph M. Wardle, Edward P. J. Corbett, Robert L. Hough, Frederick M. Link, John Unterecker, Frank W. Bliss, Donna Gerstenberger, Ted E. Boyle, Merlene A. Ogden, Joseph Satin, Dale B. J. Randall, Harold R. Hungerford, Wayne C. Booth, Gerald L. Gullickson, Charles Kaplan, John H. Matthews, Book Reviews, College English, Vol. 27, No. 7 (Apr., 1966), pp. 577-585

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Louis F. Peck, Paul Fussell, Jr., Bruce Dearing, Marshall Waingrow, Robert W. Rogers, Walter H. Ellis, Jr., C. Grant Loomis, Philip A. Shelly, Charles A. Herring, Anne Gwynn, Edward A. Stephenson, William M. Murphy, George S. Wykoff, John C. Coleman, New Books, College English, Vol. 17, No. 7 (Apr., 1956), pp. 419-426