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Jennifer Y. Abbott; Jordin Clark; James Proszek – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2024
With increasing threats to democracy, we call for communication educators to renew and re-examine their commitment to advancing civic engagement in the basic course. Given recent scholarly criticism that civic engagement pedagogies falsely present democratic practice as neutral or apolitical and reinforce the status quo, we set an agenda for basic…
Descriptors: Communications, Teaching Methods, Citizen Participation, Assignments
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Bordelon, Suzanne – College Composition and Communication, 2010
This essay examines women's commencement addresses presented from 1910 to 1915 at Vassar College. These addresses are significant because they reveal the students' rhetorical education and the "available means" upon which these women drew in developing a public voice. By prompting reflection and the potential for change, the commencement…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Females, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Invention