EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Why This Book and Why Now?

This collection of essays responds to several exigences, among them a set of continuing tensions characterizing Rhetoric and Composition; a set of disagreements about whether or not we are, or should be, a discipline; and a nascent sense that at this particular moment in our history, Rhetoric and Co...

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Hauptverfasser:	Rita Malenczyk, Susan Miller-Cochran, Elizabeth Wardle, Kathleen Blake Yancey
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Arts Communication skills Communications Controlled vocabularies Curricula Economic disciplines Economics Education Educational personnel Educators Employment Formal education History instruction Humanities instruction Keywords Labor economics Language Language arts Language skills Lexicology Linguistics Literature Occupations Pedagogy Rhetoric Social sciences Subject terms Teachers Terminology Writing Writing instruction Writing skills Writing teachers Written communication Written composition
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Zusammenfassung:	This collection of essays responds to several exigences, among them a set of continuing tensions characterizing Rhetoric and Composition; a set of disagreements about whether or not we are, or should be, a discipline; and a nascent sense that at this particular moment in our history, Rhetoric and Composition is on the cusp of disciplinarity. After exploring this set of exigences, we turn to a rationale for this volume, in terms of why we should consider the disciplinary nature and quality of Rhetoric and Composition as well as the implications of identifying ourselves as a discipline, especially if we understand
DOI:	10.7330/9781607326953.c000