Romancing Rhetorics: Social Expressivist Perspectives on the Teaching of Writing

Abstract

lives and their writing, from the perspective of epistemic rhetoric, as Berlin writes, "The subject is. Romancing Rhetorics is instrumental in this thesis, as she believes in combining expressivism and epistemic rhetoric into social-expressivism. This thesis will seek to address the role of the teacher in a way that blends both.

Measuring Voice in Poetry Written by Second Language Learners

“…This is a social-expressivist position that looks to create situations in which writing examines self-positioning in cultural contexts and at the same time critically interacts with imposed cultural positionings (Grandin, 1995). This is a social-expressivist position that looks to create situations in which writing examines self-positioning in cultural contexts and at the same time critically interacts with imposed cultural positionings (Grandin, 1995).…”

“…The concept of voice that underpins the majority of these approaches seems to consist of a focus on personal expression combined with writing as an opportunity to explore and position the self in a situation of social flux. This is a social-expressivist position that looks to create situations in which writing examines self-positioning in cultural contexts and at the same time critically interacts with imposed cultural positionings (Grandin, 1995). This is not the naïve, uncritical conceptualization of voice based on a simplistic definition of a stable, authentic self situated within a Western ideology of individualism that has been critiqued in the applied linguistic literature as inappropriate for a range of second and foreign language speakers (Ramanathan & Atkinson, 1999).…”