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A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity

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Contests the assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and dismissed as innate and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Hawk calls for the reexamination of current pedagogies to incorporate vitalism and complexity theory and argues for their application in the environments where students write and think today. Winner of the 2007 ...

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A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity 2007, University of Pittsburgh Press, PIttsburgh

ISBN-13: 9780822959731

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