The public work of rhetoric citizen-scholars and civic engagement /

Other Authors: Ackerman, John, 1934-, Coogan, David.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
Physical Description: xvi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition: Paperback edition.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The space to work in public life / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman
  • Should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Carolyn R. Miller
  • Power, publics, and the rhetorical uses of democracy / Candice Rai
  • The public work of critical political communication / M. Lane Bruner
  • Rhetorical engagement in the cultural economies of cities / John M. Ackerman
  • Democracy and its limitations / Ralph Cintron
  • Rhetorical engagements in the scientist's process of remaking race as genetic / Celeste M. Condit
  • Going public in a disabling discourse / Linda Flower
  • Sophists for social change / David J. Coogan
  • Knowledge work with the Cherokee Nation : the pedagogy of engaging publics in a praxis of new media / Ellen Cushman and Erik Green
  • On being useful : rhetoric and the work of engagement / Jeffrey T. Grabill
  • Finding a place for school in rhetoric's public turn / David Fleming
  • Mediating differences / Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller
  • A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education : "sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / Diana George and Paula Mathieu
  • The Community Literacy Advocacy Project : civic revival through rhetorical activity in rural Arkansas / David A. Jolliffe
  • The prospects for the public work of rhetoric : a coda on codes / Susan C. Jarratt.