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Author:   Peter N. Goggin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9781138809185

ISBN 10:   1138809187
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   03 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Peter Goggin 1 Rhetorical Techne, Local Knowledge, and Challenges in Contemporary Activism Elenore Long 2 Writing in the Third Space from the Sun: A Pentadic Analysis of Discussion Papers Written for the 7th Session of the UN Forum on Forests (April 16-27, 2007) Hannah Scialdone-Kimberley and David Metzger 3 Creating a Rhetorical Space for Biodiversity: The Great Smokey Mountains Association Elizabeth Giddens 4 The Vision or the View: Cape Wind and the Rhetoric of Sustainable Energy Kimberly Moekle 5 The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition: Rhetorical Landscapes, Responsible Public Land Use Lynda McNeil 6 From Oral Tradition to Legal Documents: Words to Protect the Headwaters of the San Antonio River Sally E. Said 7 Acquiring Biospheric Literacy: Discursive Tools, Situated Learning and the Rhetoric of Use Anne Faith Mareck 8 Alone on the Ark: Al Gore Reconstructed in An Inconvenient Truth Jeff Bergin 9 Adventure Narratives and the Ethos of Survival Doug Christensen 10 Fixing Locke: Civil Liberties on a Finite Planet Eric Zencey 11 Toward Sustainable Literacies: From Representational to Recreational Rhetorics David M. Grant Contributors Index

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"""The freshness of the outlook offered by the contributors is matched by the range of their methods and topics and the inventiveness of their observations and conclusions."" -- M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Rhetoric Review ""Collectively, the essays offer a clearer definition of the potentialities and problems associated with the nebulous term sustainability by offering humanities scholars places to hang their hats, so to speak, within interdisciplinary spaces addressing the topic of sustainability."" -- Lynée Lewis Gaillet, College Composition and Communication"

The freshness of the outlook offered by the contributors is matched by the range of their methods and topics and the inventiveness of their observations and conclusions. -- M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Rhetoric Review Collectively, the essays offer a clearer definition of the potentialities and problems associated with the nebulous term sustainability by offering humanities scholars places to hang their hats, so to speak, within interdisciplinary spaces addressing the topic of sustainability. -- Lynee Lewis Gaillet, College Composition and Communication

The freshness of the outlook offered by the contributors is matched by the range of their methods and topics and the inventiveness of their observations and conclusions. -- M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Rhetoric Review Collectively, the essays offer a clearer definition of the potentialities and problems associated with the nebulous term sustainability by offering humanities scholars places to hang their hats, so to speak, within interdisciplinary spaces addressing the topic of sustainability. -- Lynee Lewis Gaillet, College Composition and Communication

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Peter N. Goggin is associate professor of English at Arizona State University and is author of Professing Literacy in Composition Studies.

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