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Side By Side: Allyship's Rhetorical Construction In University Lgbt Resource Center "Safe Space" Training Manuals, Chad Kuehn
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While university LGBT resource centers work to educate, enable, and embolden members of the LGBTQIA+ community themselves, there is also important work for resource centers in building bridges to, and understanding within, greater campus and greater community populations. Our paper explores the rhetorical construction used by university LGBT resource center Safe Space training manuals to develop understanding, compassion, activism—allyship and allies—in resource center communities, populations potentially both inside and outside that of the university LGBTQIA+ community proper. As many LGBT resource centers have been founded on texts that unintentionally promote hetero- and homonormative ways of being, current Safe Space manuals …
Situating The Voice Of Rhetoric For College Writing: A Paulo Freire’S Reading Of Adichie’S Speech On “The Danger Of A Single Story”, John Chang
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Many writing instructors use personal literacy narratives as a rhetorical site and an approach for teaching college writing in the context of definition argument. Rhetorically, students have had difficulty in defining what exactly they want to say about their personal literacy narratives where they have to clearly identify themselves and argue persuasively on issues they choose to raise in the assignment. In his Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire’s careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship reveals its fundamentally narrative character, arguing that “education is suffering from narration sickness” (71). The “narration sickness” in the education system suggests that rhetoric …
A Rhetorical Journey Into Advocacy, Samuel T. Harvey
A Rhetorical Journey Into Advocacy, Samuel T. Harvey
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This thesis reveals how advocacy is rhetorically constructed by using several rhetorical tools such as Kenneth Burke’s terministic screens, Michel Foucault’s genealogy and archaeology, and Bruno Latour’s black box. It is told in an autistethnographic style where it is part narrative, part academic, and written by an autistic person. Advocacy is rhetorically constructed by beginning to define a label for yourself.
Agency In The Age Of Machines: Empowering Students As Agents Through A Technorealist Approach To The Machine Scoring Debate / Astute Intelligence: Human And Nonhuman Textual Engagement In Digital Networks, Jack A. Hennes
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