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"PragerU as Genre: How Ideologies Typify Speech"

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About the Author

Christopher Luis Shosted  is a student at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. He will graduate in May of 2020 with a B.A. in English and a certification in writing arts. Since enrolling at Moravian College in 2018, Christopher has focused on understanding the drives behind rhetorics that harm marginalized groups. He plans to continue his education through a Master’s and Ph.D program where he wishes to put rhetorical theory in conversation with literary studies.

Contents

Introduction

Theories on Genre

PragerU’s Videos

Comparing PragerU to Academic Discourse

PragerU and Post-Truth

Conclusion

References

References

Bazerman, Charles. “Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People.” What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices, edited by Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Taylor & Francis, 2003, pp. 309-339. 

Freadman, Anne. “Anyone for Tennis?” Genre and the New Rhetoric, edited by Freedman Aviva and Peter Medway, Taylor & Francis, 1994, pp. 43-66. 

Johns, Ann. “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice.” Writing About Writing: A College Reader, 3rd ed., edited by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs, Bedford / St. Martins, 2017, pp. 319-42. 

Jones, Jeffrey. “Fox News and the Performance of Ideology” Cinema Journal, vol. 51, no. 4, 2012, pp. 178-85, JSTOR. www.jstor.org/stable/23253592. 

Mac Donald, Heather. “Who Killed the Liberal Arts?” PragerU. PragerU.com, 26 Oct. 2015, www.prageru.com/videos/who-killed-liberal-arts. 

McComiskey, Bruce. Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition, Utah State University Press, 2017. 

Miller, Carolyn. “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech. Taylor & Francis. May 1984, pp. 151-167. 

Peterson, Jordan. “Dangerous People are Teaching Your Kids.” PragerU. PragerU.com, 11, Jun. 2018, www.prageru.com/videos/dangerous-people-are-teaching-your-kids. 

United States, Supreme Court. Jacobellis v. Ohio. Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School, 22 June 1964, www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/378/184#writing-USSC_CR_0378_0184_ZC1. 

Will, George. “The Speech Every 2015 College Grad Needs to Hear.” PragerU. PragerU.com, 31 May 2015, www.prageru.com/videos/speech-every-2015-college-grad-needs-hear.

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Posted by xcheditor on May 17, 2021 in article, Issue 14.2

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