Rhetorical Power: What Really Happens in Politicized Classrooms

Title: Rhetorical Power: What Really Happens in Politicized Classrooms; Polemicized Polemics: Who Names the Controversies?
Type: Journal Article
Creator: Susan Jarratt; Janet McNew
Date: Fall 1992
Description: Jarratt argues that political discussion can and should take place in a rhetoric classroom, provided the instructor work to create a supportive dialogic environment.

Jarratt, Susan. "Rhetorical Power: What Really Happens in Politicized Classrooms." ADE Bulletin, 102 (Fall 1992): 34-39; McNew takes a "cowardly leftist" position, saying that although she considers most opposition to political correctness to be "conservative guff," she does worry about losing students with over-politicization. She mentions that she was surprised when Hairston objected to the proposed E 306 reader.
McNew, Janet. "Polemicized Polemics: Who Names the Controversies?" ADE Bulletin, 102 (Fall 1992): 35-39
Publisher: ADE Bulletin
Relation: Required Writing Courses Should Not Focus on Politically Charged Issues