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Rhetorical Ethics And The Language Of Virtue: Problems Of Agency And Action, Erica Frisicaro-Pawlowski

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Links between ethical education and rhetorical education run deep, and discussions of ethical pedagogy have been both common and crucial to rhetoric and composition's development since the field's inception. This association between ethics and rhetorical education is deeply embedded within the ethos of the field, given the classical emphasis on rhetoric as the exercise of good citizenship and the central role writing plays in general education curricula. Historically poised at the portal to higher education, composition courses have played an outsized role in the formation of good academic citizens. This motivation to explore the ethical implications of our practice has …