Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation: A Social Perspective on the Function of Writing / Edition 1

by Gregory Clark, G. Clark

Overview

This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers.

We write and read as participants in a process through which we negotiate with others whom we must live or work with and with whom we share values, beliefs, and actions. Clark draws on current literary theory, rhetoric, philosophy, communication theory, and composition studies as he builds on this argument.

Because reading and writing are public actions that address and direct matters of shared belief, values, and action, reading and writing should be taught as public discourse. We should teach not writing or reading so much as the larger practice of public discourse—a discourse that sustains the many important communities of which students are and will be active members.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780809315796
Publisher:	Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date:	12/28/1989
Series:	Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Gregory Clark is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University.

Editorial Reviews

Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Clark (English, Brigham Young U.) articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for social influences of a text on the response of its readers. No index. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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