The public work of rhetoric : citizen-scholars and civic engagement /
edited by John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan ; foreword by Gerard A. Hauser.
- Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages).
- Studies in rhetoric/communication .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The space to work in public life / Rhetoric revealed : should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Power, Publics, and the Rhetorical Uses of Democracy / The Public Work of Critical Political Communication / Rhetorical Engagement in the Cultural Economies of Cities / Democracy and Its Limitations / Part 2: Rhetorical Interventions: Rhetorical Engagements in the Scientist's Process of Remaking Race as Genetic / Going Public in a Disabling Discourse / Sophists for Social Change / Knowledge Work with the Cherokee Nation: The Pedagogy of Engaging Publics in a Praxis of New Media / On Being Useful: Rhetoric and the Work of Engagement / Part 3: Remaking Rhetoric in Universities and Publics / Mediating Differences / Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller -- A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education: "Sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / The Community Literacy Advocacy Project: Civic Revival through Rhetorical Activity in Rural Arkansas / The Prospects for the Public Work of Rhetoric: A Coda / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman -- Carolyn R. Miller -- Candice Rai -- M. Lane Bruner -- John M. Ackerman -- Ralph Cintron -- Celeste M. Condit -- Linda Flower -- David J. Coogan -- Ellen Cushman and Erik Green -- Jeffrey T. Grabill -- Finding a Place for School in Rhetoric's Public Turn / David Fleming -- -- -- Diana George and Paula Mathieu -- David A. Jolliffe -- Susan C. Jarratt.