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ERIC Number: EJ583504
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
Critical Reading and Writing in the Burkean Classroom: A Response to Mary Salibrici.
Coe, Richard M.
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v42 n8 p638-40 May 1999
Discusses Kenneth Burke's notion of "symbolic action" as applied to texts and how it mediates perceptions. Discusses some ways to teach students to get outside their own perspectives and notice what they are overlooking (thus teaching Burke's "perspective by incongruity"). (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Inquiry, Reader Text Relationship, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Secondary Education, Units of Study, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Burke (Kenneth)
Note: For original article see CS 757 096.