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Between the Lines: Writing Ethics Pedagogy

May, Phillip W. "Cactus", IV
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4406-5530
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1521624213838432

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
This research project seeks to establish the degree to which morality and ethics are implicated in writing pedagogy. While writing, rhetoric, and ethics have long been interlinked in the traditions of rhetorical pedagogy, perhaps most famously in Socrates’ admonishment of the Sophists, postmodern skepticism has, in part, diminished the centrality of morality and ethics to college writing instruction. I arrive at this project prickled by my own assumptions that writing might well be taught aside from moral and ethical considerations. To this end, I curate a collection of representative work applying the concepts of ethics to composition pedagogy research and scholarship from 1990 to the present. This work is necessary because the theory and practice of ethics in composition studies is diverse and diffuse. While a few scholars have made ethics a primary concern (for example, Marilyn Cooper; Peter Mortensen; James Porter) and others who have sought to map the disciplinary engagement (for example, Paul Dombrowski; Laura Micciche), treatments of ethics in composition scholarship remain fragmented and idiomatic. This research project draws together the streams of thought informing composition’s diverse engagement with ethics to provide a representative sampling of approaches and ethical treatments pertaining to writing pedagogy. My approach is to seek to understand what prompts scholars to engage ethics: What problems and questions drive writing scholars toward ethics? And what do these scholars hope to accomplish by doing ethics? Employing a descriptive method grounded in feminist interpretations of pluralist ethics, this research project collects ethical interventions into writing scholarship interested in writing tradition, theory, research methods, and social advocacy. This research projects concludes by considering how writing ethics has transformed my writing praxis.
Sherrie Gradin (Committee Chair)
238 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
composition; critical pedagogy; curation; ethics; ethology; ethos; eudaimonia; feminist methodology; pluralist ethics; postmodernism; poststructuralism; research methods; rhetoric; rhetorical tradition; virtue; writing pedagogy; writing; wunderkammer

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  • May, IV, P. W. "C. (2018). Between the Lines: Writing Ethics Pedagogy [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1521624213838432

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • May, IV, Phillip. Between the Lines: Writing Ethics Pedagogy. 2018. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1521624213838432.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • May, IV, Phillip. "Between the Lines: Writing Ethics Pedagogy." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1521624213838432

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