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Muzaffar, Irfan – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study concerns itself with the conflict in mathematics education--popularly known as "math wars"--in the United States. More specifically, it investigates the "terms of debate" in this conflict to develop insights into the varied, and sometimes conflicting, relationships between the perceived nature of mathematics and its…
Descriptors: United States History, Mathematics Education, Rhetoric, Conflict
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Mendenhall, Annie S. – College English, 2011
This essay provides an account of The Ohio State University's (OSU) rhetoric department during the tenure of Joseph Villiers Denney, arguing that he appropriated and repurposed national trends in education and rhetoric in ways that complicate the narrative of rhetoric and composition's decline in the late nineteenth century. In this essay, the…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, College Faculty, Reputation, Writing (Composition)
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Graff, Nelson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article describes an assignment piloted in spring of 2008 called the Rhetorical Analysis Project, which required students to analyze three different texts addressing a common issue, compose an argument about the representation of that issue as illustrated by those texts, and revise that argument to match a rhetorical model they chose from…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Transfer of Training, Rhetorical Criticism, High Stakes Tests
Paredes, Sofia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Student academic writing in higher education is a central component of language programs whose purpose is to promote advanced literacy in the target language. At this level, students are required to produce texts that are analytical-argumentative in nature. This type of genre requires writers to formulate an interpretative statement or thesis and…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Rhetoric
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Wilder, Laura; Wolfe, Joanna – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
The ethics and efficacy of explicitly teaching disciplinary discourse conventions to undergraduate students has been hotly debated. This quasi-experimental study seeks to contribute to these debates by focusing on the conventional special "topoi" of literary analysis--conventions that previous Writing in the Disciplines (WID) research indicates…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Rhetoric, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Northcut, Kathryn M. – Writing Instructor, 2007
Stasis theory is a powerful tool for rhetorical analysis, recently under fresh consideration by rhetorical theorists (e.g. Gross) and scholars who identify its utility in the writing classroom (e.g. Carroll). In this study, the author applies stasis theory to a paleontological argument involving a controversial fossil, "Protoavis texensis."…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Paleontology, Writing Instruction
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Gorsevski, Ellen W.; Schuck, Raymond I.; Lin, Canchu – Western Journal of Communication, 2012
Using rhetorical analysis in the form of an autoethnographically informed biocritique, this study applies and expands the concept of rhetorical plasticity to examine the popular museum exhibit "Bodies: The Exhibition," which is arguably the most controversial of a series of contemporary museum exhibits that feature deceased human bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Non Western Civilization, Death
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Ruecker, Todd – Composition Studies, 2011
English 1311: Expository English Composition is the first semester course in a two-semester first-year composition (FYC) sequence. Both ENG 1311 and its second-semester counterpart, ENG 1312, are required for all students unless they have transfer credit covering this requirement or place out of one or both of the courses via the College-Level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Higher Education
Benson, Thomas W. – 1977
Teachers of rhetorical criticism need not wait for critics to reach agreement on only one usage of "rhetoric" as a theoretical construct, but can use the various ways it is conceived as an educational resource. This document describes nine kinds of critics, each of whose sense of rhetoric can be useful in suggesting to students ways to unravel a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism
Measell, James S. – 1976
Recently, genre studies have become increasingly important in the area of rhetorical criticism. This method of analysis is based on the assumption that rhetorics vary situationally, like situations will produce like rhetorics, antecedent rhetorical events significantly affect the creative product, and analogy is more important than anomaly when…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Higher Education, Historical Criticism, Literary Criticism
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Harpine, Bill – Journal of the American Forensic Association, 1977
Defines "stock issue" by the manner in which they function in Aristotle's theory, reviews examples of modern theories of stock issues, examines previous investigations of the "Rhetoric," and analyzes Aristotle's approach to this aspect of argumentation. (MH)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric
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Tee, Ng Pak – International Journal of Educational Management, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss why there is often a gulf of difference between policy rhetoric and reality. In particular, the paper seeks to explore issues with the policy rhetoric, implementation process and the lens through which reality is perceived, explaining why these issues can open up a policy rhetoric-reality gap. This article also…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Educational Policy, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory
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Bowden, Randall G. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
"Scholarship Reconsidered" by Ernest Boyer generates a flurry of theoretical and applied activity. Much of the research centers on the concept of the scholarship of teaching as researchers explore what constitutes scholarship, which is often misdirected. Through lexical statistics and rhetorical analysis, the text is examined according to its…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Teaching Models, College Faculty
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Levin, Richard – College English, 1975
The rhetorical strategies used to justify "new" readings by thematic critics reveal the essentially trivial nature of the thematic approach.
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literature, Renaissance Literature, Rhetoric
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Conville, Richard – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1970
Discusses implications and possible applications of Northrop Frye's concept of mythos" as a theory of speech criticism. (RD)
Descriptors: Comedy, Literary Criticism, Mythic Criticism, Persuasive Discourse
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