| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The rhetoric of literary criticism revisited: mistaken critics, complex contexts, and social justice -- "You wouldn't want to introduce that to undergraduate students": literature professors' views of disciplinarity and student discourse -- "This is how we do things": professors' expectations for student writing -- "Some tools to take with them": making disciplinary conventions explicit -- "Other professors, they assume you already know this stuff": student views of disciplinary enculturation and explicating conventions -- "There were negative results for me": faculty resistance to explicit instruction in disciplinary rhetoric. |
| Summary |
Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersections between scholarly literary criticism and undergraduate writing in introductory literature courses. Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies is the first examination of rhetorical practice in the research and teaching of literary study and a detailed assessment of the ethics and efficacy of explicit instruction in the rhetorical strategies and genre conventions of the discipline. Using rhetorical analysis, |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. |
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Interdisciplinary approach in education.
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Interdisciplinary approach in education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilder, Laura, 1971- Rhetorical strategies and genre conventions in literary studies. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2012 9780809330935 (DLC) 2011034949 (OCoLC)738349215 |
| ISBN |
9780809330942 (electronic book) |
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0809330946 (electronic book) |
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9780809330935 |
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0809330938 |
| Standard No. |
9786613723048 |
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