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 Note: This is a plain-text version of a monograph that runs 133 pages in print.

Overview

 This book draws from classical and modern Western rhetorics, reader-response and discourse-processing theories to argue that rhetorical theory should include a theory of reading to describe how meaning is made during the act of reading. I hope that this theory (described in Chapter 3 and illustrated in Chapter 4) will cast light on the problem of how to help students learn to make meaning more effectively from their reading when they are writing research papers. Chapter 5 is an attempt to show how the teory can be applied in the composition classroom.

Introduction: Why Does Rhetoric Need a Theory of Reading?
Chapter 1: Starting Points
Chapter 2: Reading as Construction; Reading as COmmunication
Chapter 3: From Intepretation to Belief
Chapter 4: The Rhetoric of Reading as a Critical Technique
Chapter 5: Implications for Teaching and for the Art of Rhetoric
Works Cited