TY - BOOK ID - 85653470 TI - Teaching writing, rhetoric, and reason at the globalizing university PY - 2021 SN - 1003100449 1000259927 1000259943 9781003100447 9781000259926 9781000259940 9781000259933 1000259935 9780367568856 PB - New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Rhetoric KW - Academic writing KW - Learned writing KW - Scholarly writing KW - Authorship KW - Language and languages KW - Speaking KW - Expression KW - Literary style KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85653470 AB - "This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality, neutrality, and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish, Asao Inoue, Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek, and Steven Pinker, this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing, grammar, and argumentation foster marginalization, oppression, and the restriction of student agency. Instead, it argues that the best way to help and protect a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical analysis of core topics in composition studies, including the teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality; empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism. Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and composition, as well as more seasoned scholars and program administrators, this polemical book provides an accessible staging of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with"-- ER -