The author of this book analyzes the rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of 19th-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900. She Logan develops each chapter in this illustra...
Within the context of current interest in service learning and community-based rhetorical activism, Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post-suffrage organizationsthe League of Women Voters...
"As researchers, scholars, and teachers of writing, we have all come a very long way since 1949 and the official creation of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. While one volume cannot possibly capture every single thing of note, this one goes quite far in helping us to see past, present, and perhaps most important, the pathways to the next phase of what remains, even in our digital age, significant and necessary work."--Jacqueline Jones Royster, coauthor of Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies "Probing the history and current troubles and challenges faced by college and university writing programs and providing strategies by which these might be and are being addressed, this collection will be a valuable resource for writing teachers, scholars, and program administrators."--Bruce Horner, author of Rewriting Composition: Terms of Exchange
Cheryl Glenn is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Her many scholarly publications include Rhetorical Education in America; Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence (SIU Press); Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts (SIU Press); and Landmark Essays in Rhetoric and Feminism.