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Summary
Summary
Critical Situations encourages students to identify critical situations in their communities, to develop rhetorical strategies for taking action in those situations, and to produce community-based writing projects. Critical Situations is an inquiry-driven brief rhetoric that introduces students to ancient rhetorical methods for inventing and arranging texts. These ancient methods are integrated into contemporary public writing, advocacy, and cultural studies approaches to composition as students write in response to situations in their communities, producing meaningful texts that motivate them to write. Historical and contemporary case studies are integrated into writing instruction to provide a strong introduction to rhetoric. A series of workshops offers students the opportunities to explore practical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of composition. students the opportunities to explore practical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of composition.
Author Notes
Sharon Crowley is professor of rhetoric and composition at Arizona State University and a former professor at Penn State and Northern Arizona universities. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska and her Ph.D. from the University of Northern Colorado. She has written articles on the history of rhetoric and composition and on postmodernism in the teaching of writing; her work has appeared in Journal of Advanced Composition, Rhetoric Review, and College Composition and Communication.
Crowley has served as chair of the Committee on Professional Standards to help improve the working conditions of college writing teachers. This stems from her interest in the history of writing instruction in the U.S. Her book, The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-traditional Rhetoric, won the 1991 W. Ross Winterowd Award. In it, she explains what current rhetoric is and discusses its development. She has also written Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, and A Teacher's Guide to Deconstruction.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| Preface: Using Critical Situations |
| Part I Motivated Rhetorical Choices |
| Chapter 1 Context is Critical: Situations of Rhetoric |
| On the Bus |
| Key Concepts and Procedures |
| Communication and Commitment |
| Community |
| Critical Situation |
| Talk / Read / Write |
| Rhetorical Invention |
| Talk / Read / Write |
| Introduction to the Invention Journal |
| About the Workshops |
| Introduction to the Case Studies |
| The Abolitionist Era |
| September 11, 2001 |
| Student Projects |
| Talk / Read / Write |
| List of Works Cited |
| Workshops Recommended in this Chapter |
| Collaborating on Guidelines for the Project Workshop |
| Different Values and Respectful Conflict |
| Chapter 2 Choosing an Issue |
| Commitment in Social Context |
| Commitment in Historical Context |
| Trouble in Transit |
| Talk / Read / Write |
| Commitments Generated by September 11 |
| Talk / Read / Write |
| From Commitment to Action: Mapping Community |
| Invention Journal: Your Community Map |
