Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes - Softcover

Roberts-Miller, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080932766X ISBN 13: 9780809327669

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2007

Synopsis

In ""Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes"", Patricia Roberts-Miller argues that much current discourse about argument pedagogy is hampered by fundamental unspoken disagreements over what democratic public discourse should look like. The book's pivotal question is, In what kind of public discourse do we want our students to engage? To answer this, the text provides a taxonomy, discussion, and evaluation of political theories that underpin democratic discourse, high-lighting the relationship between various models of the public sphere and rhetorical theory. ""Deliberate Conflict"" cogently advocates reintegrating instruction in argumentation with the composition curriculum. By linking effective argumentation in the public sphere with the ability to effect social change, Roberts-Miller pushes compositionists beyond a simplistic Aristotelian conception of how argumentation works and offers a means by which to prepare students for active participation in public discourse.

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Review:

...this book will inform how we understand not just whether to teach argument but what kind of argument to teach and how. - Rhetoric Review ""Roberts-Miller provides a much-needed backdrop to discussions about how to teach argument and about how to help students become discursively responsive and responsible citizens of a democracy. The theory of deliberative democracy on which the author ultimately rests her argument is compelling - and persuasively presented."" - Susan Jarratt, author of Rereading the Sophists

About the Author:

Patricia Roberts-Miller is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Texas - Austin. She is the author of Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the Puritan Public Sphere and the editor of the Harcourt Brace Sourcebook for Teachers of Writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 080932766X
• ISBN 13: 9780809327669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280