<DIV><DIV><P style=''MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%''><I>Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement</I> explores the critical practice of intercultural inquiry and rhetorical problem-solving that encourages urban writers and college mentors alike to take literate action. Author
Community literacy and the rhetoric of public engagement
โ Scribed by Linda Flower
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 294
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
Prologue: The Rhetoric of Engagement (page 1)
Part 1. A Community/University Collaboration (page 7)
1. What Is Community Literacy? (page 9)
2. Taking Literate Action (page 44)
Part 2. Theoretical Frameworks and Working Theories (page 73)
3. Images of Engagement in Composition Studies (page 75)
4. Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here? (page 100)
5. Images of Empowerment (page 123)
Part 3. Rhetorical Tools in the Rhetoric of Making a Difference (page 151)
6. Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service (page 153)
7. The Search for Situated Knowledge (page 172)
8. Taking Rhetorical Agency (page 188)
9. Affirming a Contested Agency (page 216)
10. Intercultural Inquiry: A Brief Guide (page 230)
Notes (page 243)
References (page 261)
Index (page 275)
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