A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.

Product Description: Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Postmodern Age is a collection of essays examining the role of technology in redefining rhetoric, writing, and the "human". First appearing in JAC the premier journal of writing, culture and politics - these provocative works explore a range of subjects of interest to teachers and scholors of rhetoric and compositio...read more

Product Description: On August 3, 1952, an African-American housewife, Ruby McCollum, drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams with her two young children in tow and calmly gunned down the white doctor. According to public sentiment, it was an “argument over a medical bill...read more

Product Description: An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.

Product Description: Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish s work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham bring together some of the world's leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine how they conceive of their own relationship to writing and to the work of being a critical intellectual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Documenting an era of dramatic change and growth in the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies, this book includes essays which find in contemporary theory the language to ask new questions, to reframe existing problems, and to move beyond current impasses in thought and action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial brings together six scholarly interviews with internationally renowned intellectuals outside of rhetoric and composition whose work has direct implications for scholarship within the discipline...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words is a feminist project that boldly places at its center differences among women. Topics discussed include American history, politics, language, racism, pedagogy, contingent labor in the teaching of writing, e-mail behavior, and the need for educational and institutional reform...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)