Rhetoric as Taxonomic, Managerial, Epistemic, and Heuristic [microform] : What We're Really Teaching When We're Teaching Rhetoric and Composition / Bruce L. Edwards, Jr
- Bib ID:
- 5467173
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Edwards, Bruce L., Jr
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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Epistemic rhetoric, as a monolithic view of language use, will not be much help in forging a useful and consistent definition of the composing process and an accompanying effective pedagogy. By rejecting the mimetic functions of language--and thereby the validity of any empiricism and its derivative, positivism--epistemic rhetoric banishes items thought to be inimical to the "free play" in the composing act. One way to alleviate some of the confusion and posturing associated with rhetorical epistemology is to recognize that rhetoric operates epistemologically in more than one way. The radical epistemic view cannot provide a consistent basis for conceptualizing and critiquing what counts as human knowledge. A view that recognizes rhetoric as not only taxonomic (providing names for concepts, the slots and structures and patterns of discourse) and managerial (assisting the communicator in adapting discourse to its ends and to its audience), but also epistemic (involving the writer in providing the framework that gives the world meaning and purpose) and heuristic (allowing the writer to check models of the world against reality) offers the possibility of articulating what it is that writers do when they write. (HOD)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (37th, New Orleans, LA, March 13-15, 1986).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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