Section one, Historical and theoretical perspectives. Recovering a good rhetoric: rhetoric as techne and praxis / James Porter -- Practically wise and good: understanding phronesis as a rhetorical virtue / William Duffy -- Reimagining the ethics of style / Lois Agnew -- Ren, reciprocity, and the art of communication: conversing with Confucius in the present / Bo Wang -- Transnational perspectives on ethics / Rasha Diab -- Ethics and multilingual writing / Xiaoye You -- Ethics and action: feminist perspectives on facing the grand challenges of our times / Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch. Section two, Disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives. Ethics, psychometrics, and writing assessment: a conceptual model / Robert J. Mislevy and Norbert Elliot -- Writing center ethics and the problem of "The good" / Michael A. Pemberton -- Where ethics dwells: ethical writing in the disciplines / Vicki Tolar Burton -- Not to mention Plato: pedagogical persuasion / Don J. Kraemer -- Mindful ethics and mindful writing / Paula Mathieu -- Rhetorical pivots: contending with the purpose and value of higher education in prison / Patrick W. Berry -- Toward a common tongue: rhetorical virtues in the writing classroom / John Duffy.
Summary:
"Redefines the relationships of rhetoric for scholars, teachers, and students in the twenty-first century. Essays by accomplished scholars exploring the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies-including feminist, postmodern, transnational, and virtue ethics-and examines the place of ethics in classrooms, writing centers, across the curriculum programs, and prison"-- Provided by publisher.
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