College Composition and Communication Jun 2008

Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition

Karen Kopelson

Abstract

This article places responses received from an open-ended survey of graduate students and faculty in dialogue with published commentary on the scope of composition studies as a discipline to explore three interrelated disciplinary dilemmas: the “pedagogical imperative,” the “theory-practice split,” and the increasingly complicated relationship between “rhetoric” and “composition” as our field’s titular terms.

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College Composition and Communication
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2008-06-01
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10.58680/ccc20086676
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