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From Cow Paths to ConversationRethinking the Argumentative Essay

From Cow Paths to ConversationRethinking the Argumentative Essay This article analyzes ideologies underpinning argument-based writing assignments and considers how they may contribute to a current climate of polarization. The authors suggest that the argument-based essay may be what Kenneth Burke called an unquestioned and habituated “cow path” and conclude by considering how students may benefit from a deeper engagement with explanatory ways of knowing, writing, and relating to each other. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

From Cow Paths to ConversationRethinking the Argumentative Essay

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Abstract

This article analyzes ideologies underpinning argument-based writing assignments and considers how they may contribute to a current climate of polarization. The authors suggest that the argument-based essay may be what Kenneth Burke called an unquestioned and habituated “cow path” and conclude by considering how students may benefit from a deeper engagement with explanatory ways of knowing, writing, and relating to each other.

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2020

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    Wardle, Elizabeth
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    White, Hayden
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    Wilcox, Kristen; Jeffery, Jill
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    Aull, Laura
  • Corpus Analysis of Argumentative versus Explanatory Discourse in Writing Task Genres
    Aull, Laura
  • On the Meanings of Constructed Response
    Bennett, Randy Elliot
  • Rhetoric and Poetics in the English Department: Our Nineteenth-Century Inheritance
    Berlin, James
  • The Essay Canon
    Bloom, Lynn Z.
  • Informing Automated Writing Evaluation Using the Lens of Genre: Two Studies
    Burstein, Jill; Elliot, Norbert; Molloy, Hillary
  • Personal Writing assignments
    Connors, Robert J.
  • What Is Successful Writing? An Investigation into the Multiple Ways Writers Can Write Successful Essays
    Crossley, Scott A.; Roscoe, Rod; McNamara, Danielle S.
  • On the Ascendance of Argument: A Critique of the Assumptions of Academe’s Dominant Form
    DeStigter, Todd
  • Reverberations: History and Legacies of Resistance in Black Women’s Music
    Feliz, Roberta Nin
  • ‘Conflict Seems Vaguely Un-American’: Teaching the Conflicts and the Legacy of Cold War
    Filreis, Al
  • Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric
    Foss, Sonja; Griffin, Cindy
  • The Womanization of Rhetoric
    Gearhart, Sally Miller
  • Affirmative Action Should Be Welcomed
    Geyer, John
  • Local Assessment: Using Genre Analysis to Validate Directed Self-Placement
    Gere, Anne Ruggles; Aull, Laura Louise; Lancaster, Zak; Escudero, Moises Perales; Lei, Elizabeth Vander
  • Democracy, Pedagogy, and the Personal Essay
    Haefner, Joel Villanueva, VictorJr.
  • Rethinking the Sense of the Past: The Essay as Legacy of the Epigram
    Heath, Shirley Brice Odell, Lee
  • Commentary: Trump Must Denounce Acts of Violence and Intimidation
    Hosking, Taylor
  • The Moral Subject in College Composition: A Conceptual Framework and the Case of Harvard, 1865 – 1900
    Jolliffe, David A.
  • A Textbook Argument: Definitions of Argument in Leading Composition Textbooks
    Knoblauch, A. Abby
  • The Development of Argument Skills
    Kuhn, Deanna; Udell, Wadiya
  • The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
    Lorde, Audre Lewis, Reina; Mills, Sara
  • When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision
    Rich, Adrienne
  • Fighting without Hatred: Hannah Arendt’s Agonistic Rhetoric
    Roberts-Miller, Patricia
  • Assessing Writing Constructs: Toward an Expanded View of Inter-reader Reliability
    Ross, Valerie; LeGrand, Rodger
  • Activity Theory and Its Implications for Writing Instruction
    Russell, David Petraglia, Joseph
  • A National Survey of Conditions in Freshman English
    Taylor, Warner
  • Directed Self-Placement Questionnaire Design: Practices, Problems, Possibilities
    Toth, Christie; Aull, Laura
  • What Is Reasoning? What Is an Argument?
    Walton, Douglas
  • ‘Mutt Genres’ and the Goal of FYC: Can We Help Students Write the Genres of the University?
    Wardle, Elizabeth
  • City Dwellers Should Take Time to Visit Nature
    Weich, Sophie
  • The Rhetoric of Interpretation
    White, Hayden
  • Adolescents’ Writing in the Content Areas: National Study Results
    Wilcox, Kristen; Jeffery, Jill