Salvaging the Subject: Restoring Voice in Writing Pedagogy
Keywords:
composition, rhetorical appeals, pathosAbstract
"Salvaging the Subject" argues that current practices in writing pedagogy, particularly the privileging of a disembodied prose style, can marginalize the voice of the individual student and force her to adopt a more "objective" persona. By considering the Elbow/Bartholomae debate and by examining some writing textbooks' treatment of the rhetorical appeals, this essay suggests that writing pedagogy can and must be at once theoretically sophisticated and yet still "expressive" and "embodied."
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