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[A] moral vision for our common future in writing studies. Reading this book is like reading a volume by Reinhold Niebuhr. Ideas are elegantly presented and compellingly advanced. I wanted to run down the hall, grab my colleagues by the shoulders, and firmly declare: 'You must read this!' --Norbert Elliot, University of South Florida In this timely and groundbreaking book, John Duffy provocatively claims the centrality of ethics for all writing pedagogy and guides teachers in making explicit the ethical premises that surround all rhetorical encounters. Duffy convincingly demonstrates how attention to writing as a virtuous act heightens students' awareness of the profound consequences of their writing for themselves and others. His compelling argument for rhetorical virtues offers writing studies a unifying framework that promises to create more meaningful classrooms and to revitalize civic discourse. --Lois Agnew, Syracuse University

[A] moral vision for our common future in writing studies. Reading this book is like reading a volume by Reinhold Niebuhr. Ideas are elegantly presented and compellingly advanced. I wanted to run down the hall, grab my colleagues by the shoulders, and firmly declare, 'You must read this!' --Norbert Elliot, University of South Florida In this timely and groundbreaking book, John Duffy provocatively claims the centrality of ethics for all writing pedagogy and guides teachers in making explicit the ethical premises that surround all rhetorical encounters. Duffy convincingly demonstrates how attention to writing as a virtuous act heightens students' awareness of the profound consequences of their writing for themselves and others. His compelling argument for rhetorical virtues offers writing studies a unifying framework that promises to create more meaningful classrooms and to revitalize civic discourse. --Lois Agnew, Syracuse University A must-read for all who profess composition and rhetoric. Duffy is modest in his claims and humble in the face of such momentous questions, but steadfast in our need to ask, and to try to answer them. So thank you, John Duffy. Thank you. --Bedford Bits Blog [Duffy] writes in a clear, easily accessible style and offers not only theory but also a chapter filled with ideas on ways to apply that theory in the writing classroom. --CHOICE Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing is a must-read for all who profess composition and rhetoric. --Bedford Bits Blog Duffy dismantles a few of the more traditional views of virtue and ethics and is clear in his ideas of what those terms can mean within a writing class. He writes in a clear, easily accessible style and offers not only theory but also a chapter filled with ideas on ways to apply that theory in the writing classroom --CHOICE Provocations of Virtue tells a compelling story of the power of rhetorical virtues, as fluid, humanistic responses to particular social contexts, capable of transforming both student writers and public discourse in hopeful ways. --Rhetoric Review

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John Duffy is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He has published on the ethics of writing, the rhetoric of disability, and the historical development of literacy and rhetoric in cross-cultural contexts. He coedited Literacy, Economy, and Power and is the author of Writing from These Roots, awarded the 2009 Outstanding Book Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Duffy is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

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