College Composition and Communication Jun 2000

Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change

James E. Porter ; Patricia Sullivan ; Stuart Blythe ; Jeffrey T. Grabill ; Libby Miles

Abstract

We offer institutional critique as an activist methodology for changing institutions. Since institutions are rhetorical entities, rhetoric can be deployed to change them. In its effort to counter oppressive institutional structures, the field of rhetoric and com-position has focused its attention chiefly on the composition classroom, on the de-partment of English, and on disciplinary forms of critique. Our focus shifts the scene of action and argument to professional writing and to public discourse, using spatial methods adapted from postmodern geography and critical theory.

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College Composition and Communication
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2000-06-01
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10.58680/ccc20001400
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