Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation(English, Paperback, Clark Gregory)

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Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation(English, Paperback, Clark Gregory) is written by Clark Gregory and published by Southern Illinois University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0809315793 (ISBN 10) and 9780809315796 (ISBN 13).

This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers. We write and read as participants in a process through which we negotiate with others whom we must live or work with and with whom we share values, beliefs, and actions. Clark draws on current literary theory, rhetoric, philosophy, communication theory, and composition studies as he builds on this argument. Because reading and writing are public actions that address and direct matters of shared belief, values, and action, reading and writing should be taught as public discourse. We should teach not writing or reading so much as the larger practice of public discourse--a discourse that sustains the many important communities of which students are and will be active members.