I am a class project for the Composition Theory class underway at the University of Central Florida. My creators are two foxy rhetorical theory geeks who are hard-core media nerds. I am still a work in progress.
According to the text I am based off of (Chapter 7, Rhetoric and Reality, Writing Instruction in American Colleges 1900-1985 by James Berlin) I died in 1975 at the tender age of 15. Perhaps reincarnated would be a more accurate description of my state.
My top three friends are actually the major rhetorical approaches of my chapter's time period, and we four profiles are created by the same two rhet/comp theory geeks. You will gain a greater understanding of what 1960-1975 offered rhetoric by checking out the major rhetorical approaches profiled on each of my top three friends' pages.
James Berlin defined college writing instruction 1960 to 1975 as divided into three (3) schools of thought: Objective , Subjective , and Transactional Rhetoric . This period is particularly historically significant because of events within the field of English: the conveyance of the CCCC declaration of “Students’ Right to Their Own Language†and the reemergence of the professional and academic field of Rhetoric and Composition. These events, combined with, and triggered by, the social upheavals of the time, produced lively conversations in tier 1 forums, inspired and built from radical studies, and theorized over controversial data…all of which we will attempt to describe here with the assistance of our three (3) related friends’ pages.