The Future of Thinking: Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Teaching

by Jeff Mason and Peter Washington

Book Overview

Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods, the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415073197
• ISBN13: 9780415073196
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"