Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University

by Robert Samuels

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367638789
• ISBN13: 9780367638788
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"