JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics 2011 print

Narratives, metaphors, and power-moves: The history, meanings, and implications of 'post-process'

Whicker, John H

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A history and analysis of the uses of the term post-process in rhetoric and composition. Whicker presents a taxonomy of the ways post-process has been used in composition, critiques the term as a confuscation in all but the strongest applications, and critiques the tendency to construct narratives of change that involve ambiguous metaphors designed as a questionable power-move to discredit past scholarship in order to forward new theoretical perspectives.

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JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics
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2011
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process, postprocess, terminology, theory, paralogy, historiography, history, composition, paradigms, social turn
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