Window Washing or War and Peace: Critical Rhetoric, Critical Revision, and Critical Analysis in Student Writing by Gae Lyn Henderson
Writing assignments carry political ramifications even when they attempt neutrality; students should learn that all writing occurs within larger contexts of power. To accomplish this goal, I advocate instruction derived from practices of critical rhetoric, critical revision, and critical discourse analysis. Rhetoric education, based on Donald Lazere’s Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy, trains students…