Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre by Julie Jung

By Julie Jung

In this distinctive and provocative treatise, Julie Jung augments the certainty and educating of revision by means of arguing that the method should still entail altering attitudes instead of easily altering texts. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts proposes and demonstrates other ways of interpreting, writing, and educating that listen silences in one of these manner as to generate own, pedagogical, revisions. As either a problem to winning revision pedagogies and an elaboration of latest feminist rhetorics, the amount encourages scholars and teachers to envision their identities as students of rhetoric and composition and to question how and why revision is taught.

Jung analyzes feminist texts to spot a revisionary rhetoric that's, at its middle, so much enthusiastic about making a house during which to interact productively with problems with distinction. This synthesis of feminist concept and revision reviews yields a pedagogically precious definition of feminist rhetoric, in which Jung examines the insights afforded by way of multigenre texts in a variety of comparable contexts: the educational essay, the self-discipline of rhetoric and composition reports, feminist composition, and the subfields of English experiences together with rhetoric and composition, literature, and inventive writing. Jung illustrates how multigenre texts call for leading edge equipment of inquiry simply because they don't healthy the conventions of any unmarried style. simply because style is inextricably tied to the development of social id, she explains, multigenre texts additionally supply a method for figuring out and revising disciplinary identity.

Boldly creating a case for the revisionary strength of multigenre texts, Jung retheorizes revision as a strategy of disrupting textual readability in order that variations will be pointed out, contended with, and maybe understood. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts makes nice strides in the direction of defining feminist rhetoric and ascertaining how revision may be theorized, not only practiced. Jung additionally offers a multigenre epilogue that explores the usefulness of reconceiving revision as a development in the direction of wholeness instead of perfection.

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