The Centrality of Style

by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri

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InThe Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field.

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Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction to the Centrality of Style
  8. Other Books in the Series
  9. PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
  10. Publication Information
  11. Part One: Conceptualizing Style
  12. 10: The Research Paper As Stylistic Exercise
  13. 1: Introduction to Part One: Conceptualizing Style
  14. 2: An Ethics of Attentions - Three Continuums of Classical and Contemporary Stylistic Manipulation for the 21st Century Composition Classroom
  15. 3: Stylistic Sandcastles: Rhetorical Figures as Composition’s Bucket and Spade
  16. 4: Using Stylistic Imitation in Freshman Writing Classes: The Rhetorical and Meta-Rhetorical Potential of Transitions in Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Medieval Treatises
  17. 5: Architectonics and Style
  18. 6: Making Style Practically Cool and Theoretically Hip
  19. 7: Jim Corder’s Generative Ethos as Alternative to Traditional Argument, or Style’s Revivification of the Writer-Reader Relationship
  20. 8: Teaching Style as Cultural Performance
  21. 9: Inventio and Elocutio: Language Instruction at St. Paul’s Grammar School and Today’s Stylistic Classroom
  22. Part Two: Applying Style
  23. 11: Introduction to Part Two - Applying Style
  24. 12: Style in Academic Writing
  25. 13: Tracking Interpersonal Style - The Use of Functional Language Analysis in College Writing Instruction
  26. 14: Multimodal Style and the Evolution of Digital Writing Pedagogy
  27. 15: Voice, Transformed - The Potentialities of Style Pedagogy in the Teaching of Creative Nonfiction
  28. 16: Fighting Styles: The Pedagogical Implications of Applying Contemporary Rhetorical Theory to the Persuasive Prose of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays
  29. 17: Style and the Professional Writing Curriculum: Teaching Stylistic Fluency through Science Writing
  30. 18: Toward a Pedagogy of Psychic Distance
  31. 19: What Scoring Rubrics Teach Students (and Teachers) about Style
  32. Back Matter
  33. Index
  34. Glossary
  35. Detailed Licensing