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Author Flower, Linda, author.

Title Community literacy and the rhetoric of public engagement / Linda Flower
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents What is community literacy? -- Taking literate action -- Images of engagement in composition studies -- Who am I? What am I doing here? -- Images of empowerment -- Intercultural inquiry and the transformation of service -- The search for situated knowledge -- Taking rhetorical agency -- Affirming a contested agency -- Intercultural inquiry : a brief guide
Summary Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement explores the critical practice of intercultural inquiry and rhetorical problem-solving that encourages urban writers and college mentors alike to take literate action. Author Linda Flower documents an innovative experiment in community literacy, the Community Literacy Center in Pittsburgh, and posits a powerful and distinctively rhetorical model of community engagement and pedagogy for both marginalized and privileged writers and speakers. In addition, she articulates a theory of local publics and explores the transfo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index
Notes English
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Subject Literacy -- Social aspects -- Case studies
Literacy -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Literacy programs -- Case studies
Literacy programs -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Intercultural communication -- Case studies
Intercultural communication -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Case studies
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Intercultural communication
Literacy programs
Literacy -- Social aspects
Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007036746
ISBN 9781435663640
1435663640
9780809386994
0809386992
129945464X
9781299454644