A rhetoric for professional writing: Global Writing
| dc.contributor.author | Gervasi, Anne | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Tanner, William E. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kobler, Turner S. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bishop, J. Dean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-30T20:10:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-30T20:10:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 5/30/1992 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation extends Walter H. Beale's A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric in order to create a pedagogy for professionals who write. Beale devises motivational axes and forms a quadripartite perspective or world view rooted in motive. Global Writing, a rhetoric for professional writing, develops from Beale's theory. Chapter 1 closes the theoretical lacunae left by Beale and extends his theory to envelop the universe of discourse through a root metaphor of the physical world. Chapter 2 presents a fictionalized narrative of the development and teaching of Global Writing at American Airlines. Chapter 3 offers a formal course of study. Chapter 4 mounts the argument for Global Writing as an expert system for people who write. Chapter 5 explains the ludus of this work since the preceding chapters are each written from different Global Writing perspectives: first, the scientific or investigative perspective; then, the poetic or expressive world view; next, the instrumental or instructional scene; finally, the rhetorical or persuasive point of view. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11274/9023 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | Language, literature, and linguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Technical writing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rhetoric | |
| dc.subject | Writing | en_US |
| dc.title | A rhetoric for professional writing: Global Writing | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Arts and Sciences | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas Woman's University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |