In testing writing, what should we test for? When I first read of University of California President Richard C. Atkinson’s insistence that the SAT I include a writing component, I was pleased. After ...
Early on in my writing courses, I ask students to define their sense of rhetoric. Responses range from “persuasion” to “manipulation,” but they tend to share a negative connotation. Little wonder: In ...
When people use the term “rhetoric” these days, they usually mean empty language — be it high-flown or spoken in high dudgeon. A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to ...
To donate to the PWR, please make sure to enter or select the "Program for Writing and Rhetoric Fund" on the CU Boulder donation page. Creative nonfiction is an important and integral part of the ...
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