Writing Matters: Rhetoric in Public and Private Lives

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Index ~ 85 index academic discourse, 31–32 admission policies, for graduate programs, 62–63 African American Vernacular English, 26, 64 Aleut language, 20 American Sign Language (asl), 64 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 30 Arabic language, 20 Arendt, Hannah, 37 Aristotle, rhetoric of, 3 auding, 9 author construct, 39–40 authority: and community ethic, 50, 52–53; as connected and reciprocal, 37; as constructed dynamic, 73–74n1 (ch. 3); as individual and masculine, 40; as negative term, 46–47; perceptions of, 38–41, 45–46; versus presence, 50; and responsibility/respondability , 50; as tied to author construct, 39 —characteristics of: feminist, 43; traditional, 41–42 —distinguished from: authoritarianism, 43; power, 51 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 71 Baron, Dennis, 22 Barry, Lynda, 29 Barthes, Roland, 40 Berlin, Jim, 42 Bleich, David, 43 blogcasting, 16 Blood Song (Drucker), 29 Brodkey, Linda, 39, 47 Brooke, C. G., 16 Bruffee, Kenneth, 51 Burke, Kenneth, 7 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 20 Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 20 canon wars, of literary tradition, 28 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 56 Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, 66 86 ~ Index Carnegie Mellon University community literacy center, 71 Castillo, Ana, 30 Chavez, Denise, 30 Chinese language, 20 Chronicle of Higher Education, 63 citizenship, and language wars, 26 Clark, Suzanne, 43 Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (Corbett), 2 Cliff, Michelle, 30–31 Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 4 collaborative research/dissertations, and graduate studies, 66–69 College Composition and Communication, 4 College English, 63 comic books, 28–31 communication: and language, 21; and new media/genres, 66; and punctuation marks, 31 community ethic, and authority, 50, 52–53 “Community in the Expressivist Classroom” (Fishman and McCarthy), 44 community outreach programs, 71 competition, in PhD programs, 62 composition, and “new” rhetoric, 3–4, 73n1 (ch. 1) Connors, Robert, 4 Coover, Robert, 28 copyright, 39–40 Corbett, Edward P. J., 2 Cosby, Bill, 26–27 Crowley, Sharon, 47 Crystal, David, 20–21 curriculum: evaluation of, for multimedia, 13–14; for rhetoric, 2–3, 5, 10–11 delivery: multimedia research-based, 11–12; and rhetoric, 6–7, 9–11 Diogenes, Marvin, 8 discourse, experimental varieties of, 32–33 doctoral programs. See English graduate study documents, spoken (talkuments), 9 Drucker, Eric, 29 Ebonics, 26, 64 Ede, Lisa, 39, 42, 43 English departments, segmentation of, 65–66 English faculties, promotion/tenure conflicts in, 59–62 English graduate study: admission policies for, 62–63; as collaborative, 66–69; current practices in, 56–57, 75n4 (ch. 4); exclusivity of, 57, 74n2 (ch. 4); minorities in, 57–58; performative exams in, 67–68; redefining of, Index ~ 87 64, 66–67; and research projects, 68–70; and teaching circles, 69–70 English language: as global, 19–20; as official in United States, 22; vernacular, 26, 64 English Only movement, 24, 27 English Plus movement, 25, 27 ethics of authority, 36, 42–43, 49–50 exclusion, and authority, 41–42 fair use, 40 feminist theory, on authority, 37, 43 Fishman, Stephen, 44 Foer, Jonathan Safran, 31 Foucault, Michel, 39, 40 Foundation for Endangered Languages, 20 freewritings, 73n1 (ch. 3) Gere, Anne, 42, 43, 45, 50 German language, 22 Giroux, Henry, 42 graduate students, as colleagues, 69 Graff, Gerald, 64, 66 graphic novels, 28–31 Great War, The (Winter), 67 Guillory, John, 63 Hayakawa, S. I., 24 Henrico College (Va.), 22–24 hierarchy, and authority, 41–42 hooks, bell, 19 Howard, Rebecca, 39; “Plagiarism, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty,” 74n2 (ch. 3) Hunt, Russ, 50 Hutcheson, Linda, 59 iconography, and graphic novels, 29 Indians (American), English education of, 22–24 individualism, and authority construct, 40–41 Inkshed Conference, 50–51 Inksheddings (freewritings), 73n1 (ch. 3) In the Shadow of No Towers (Spiegelman), 28 Introducing English (Slevin), 22 Jackson, Shelley, 28 Jones, Kathleen B.: “On Authority,” 41; “The Trouble with Authority,” 39, 43 judgment, and authority, 41–42 Kirsch, Gesa, 37, 40, 43 language: and identity, 19–20, 25; and literacy, 9; and prosodacy, 9; and rhetoric, 17 Language Death (Crystal), 20–21 language wars, and U.S. politics, 26, 33 l33t (leet; elite), 32 legislation, copyright/patent, 39–40 88 ~ Index letteracy, 9 linguistic pluralism, 21–22, 25–26; and graphic novels, 30 Linguistics Society of America (lsa), 65 literacy: new definition of, 9, 15; and performance, 10; secondary, 7–8; and Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric (pwr), 10–16 literary tradition, and canon wars, 28 literature: curricular redefinition of, 64...