PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING

      Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod

      The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms.

      The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through free digital distribution and low-cost print editions. The publishers and the Series editor are teachers and researchers of writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.

      Other Books in the Series

      Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo (Eds.), Genre in a Changing World (2009)

      David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony Di Renzo (Eds.), Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing (2010)

      Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (Eds.), Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (2011)

      Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova, Writing in Knowledge Societies (2011)

      Andy Kirkpatrick and Zhichang Xu, Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers (2012)

      Chris Thaiss, Gerd Bräuer, Paula Carlino, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams, and Aparna Sinha (Eds.), Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places (2012)

      Charles Bazerman, Chris Dean, Jessica Early, Karen Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (Eds.), International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (2012)

      THE CENTRALITY OF STYLE

      Edited by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri

      The WAC Clearinghouse

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      Fort Collins, Colorado

      Parlor Press

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      Anderson, South Carolina

      The WAC Clearinghouse, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1052

      Parlor Press, 3015 Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina 29621

      © 2013 by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      The centrality of style / edited by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri.

       pages cm. -- (Perspectives on writing)

       Includes bibliographical references.

       ISBN 978-1-60235-422-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-423-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)

       1. English language--Style. I. Duncan, Mike, 1975- editor of compilation. II. Vanguri, Star Medzerian, 1980- editor of compilation.

       PE1421.C46 2013

       808’.042’0711--dc23

       2013011457

      Copyeditor: Don Donahue

      Designers: Mike Palmquist

      Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado State University, it brings together scholarly journals and book series as well as resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. This book is available in digital format for free download at http://wac.colostate.edu.

      Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paperback, cloth, and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor Press at http://www.parlorpress.com. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 3015 Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina 29621, or e-mail [email protected].

      Contents

       Foreword

       Paul Butler

       Introduction to the Centrality of Style

       Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri

      Part One: Conceptualizing Style

       Introduction to Part One: Conceptualizing Style

       Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri

       An Ethics of Attentions: Three Continuums of Classical and Contemporary Stylistic Manipulation for the 21st Century Composition Classroom

       William C. Kurlinkus

       Stylistic Sandcastles: Rhetorical Figures as Composition’s Bucket and Spade

       William FitzGerald

       Using Stylistic Imitation in Freshman Writing Classes: The Rhetorical and Meta-Rhetorical Potential of Transitions in Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Medieval Treatises

       Denise Stodola

       Architectonics and Style

       Russell Greer

       Making Style Practically Cool and Theoretically Hip

       Keith Rhodes

       Jim Corder’s Generative Ethos as Alternative to Traditional Argument, or Style’s Revivification of the Writer-Reader Relationship

       Rosanne Carlo

       Teaching Style as Cultural Performance

       Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth

       Inventio and Elocutio: Language Instruction at St. Paul’s