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ERIC Number: EJ449815
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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The Dissatisfactions of Rhetoric: Philosophy and Politics in the Teaching of Writing.
Crosswhite, James
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, v21 n4 p1-16 Fall 1991
Shows how the teaching of writing is ineluctably embroiled in philosophical instabilities. Argues for strengthening the place of philosophy in the teaching of writing as a response to and, to some degree, resistance to the inevitable politicizing of the teaching of writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Individualism, Philosophy, Politics of Education, Rhetoric, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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