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Publication Date: 2017
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Writing and Rhetoric Majors, Disciplinarity, and "Techne"
Scott, J. Blake; Meloncon, Lisa
Composition Forum, v35 Spr 2017
How we argue for, create, and mobilize around writing and rhetoric majors will continue to shape our field's disciplinarity in crucial ways, including our recognition, resources, and relationships. The range of such majors and their institutional contexts, and the disparate field-level efforts to track and build consensus around them, generate more questions than answers, leaving the turn to disciplinarity an open question. This article proposes "techne"--rhetoric as the productive art of enacting knowledge--as a conceptual tool for identifying connections across writing and rhetoric majors. Such points of connection can, in turn, serve to guide efforts for supporting and building shared resources for majors, and to enable a contingent and adaptive understanding of our field's identity and (potential) disciplinarity.
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Majors (Students), English Instruction, College Students, Educational Resources, Guidelines, Intellectual Disciplines
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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