Class Ethos and the Politics of Inquiry: What the Barroom Can Teach Us about the Classroom.

Lindquist, Julie

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Publication Date: 1999

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Class Ethos and the Politics of Inquiry: What the Barroom Can Teach Us about the Classroom.

Lindquist, Julie

College Composition and Communication, v51 n2 p225-47 Dec 1999

Suggests that an examination of rhetorical practices at the local bar is instructive: (1) the barroom is predictably different from the university writing classroom; and (2) the barroom is surprisingly similar to the university writing classroom. Shows that the rhetoric that is valued most highly in today's writing classroom operates differently as currency in the working-class institution of the barroom. (SC)

Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Ethnography, Higher Education, Inquiry, Rhetoric, Social Differences, Working Class, Writing (Composition)

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Language: English

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