The Public Work of Rhetoric : Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Space to Work in Public Life 1 -- [Part 1]: Rhetoric Revealed -- Should we Name the Tools? Concealing and Revealing the Art of Rhetoric -- Power, Publics, and the Rhetorical Uses of Democracy -- The Public Work of Critical Political Communication -- Rhetorical Engagement in the Cultural Economies of Cities -- Democracy and its Limitations -- [Part 2]: Rhetorical Interventions -- Rhetorical Engagements in the Scientist's Process of Remaking Race as Genetic -- Going Public-in a Disabling Discourse -- Sophists for Social Change -- Knowledge Work with the Cherokee Nation: The Pedagogy of Engaging Publics in a Praxis of New Media -- On Being Useful: Rhetoric and the Work of Engagement -- [Part 3]: Remaking Rhetoric in Universities and Publics -- Finding a Place for School in Rhetoric's Public Turn -- Mediating Differences -- A Place for the Dissident Press in a Rhetorical Education: "Sending up a signal flare in the darkness" -- The Community Literacy Advocacy Project: Civic Revival through Rhetorical Activity in Rural Arkansas -- The Prospects for the Public Work of Rhetoric: A Coda on Codes -- Contributors -- Index.

Through these studies and accounts, the contributors champion the notion that the public work of rhetoric is the tough labor of gaining access and trust, learning the codes and histories of communities, locating the situations in which rhetorical expertise is most effective, and in many cases jointly defining the terms for gauging social change.

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