oeuvre, see Lester Faigley’s Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition.
23.See Warschauer’s and Banks’s multiple accesses; Mossberger, Tolbert, and Stansbury’s multiple digital divides; and Selber’s muliliteracies.
24.For further information on shopdropping and other culture jamming examples see: www.woostercollective.com.
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Stylistic Sandcastles: Rhetorical Figures as Composition’s Bucket and Spade
William FitzGerald
Rutgers
For all a rhetorician’s rules teach nothing but to name his tools.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras
Aposiopesis? Metalepsis? Zeugma? What did my students think when first introduced to these and other terms? I know because they told
