Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric, Brief Edition

This edition is updated for a new era of populism, racial tensions, and the most rhetorical presidential campaign in memory - addressing the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric.

Author: Donald Lazere, Anne-Marie Womack
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/07/2020
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780415793667

About the Author

Donald Lazere is Professor Emeritus of English at Cal Poly State U, San Luis Obispo. He has written or edited six other scholarly and text books on argumentative rhetoric and the politics of education, media, and literature. He has also published widely on these topics in scholarly journals as well as in opinion columns and book reviews for journalistic periodicals such as the Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.

Anne-Marie Womack is a Professor of Practice and former Director of Writing at Tulane University. She's the creator of the award-winning AccessibleSyllabus.com, a guide to universally designing educational documents. Her articles appear in College Composition and Communication, Composition Forum, Pedagogy, and Hybrid Pedagogy, among others. Currently, she is co-authoring a book on inclusive college classrooms with Lauren Cardon.