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What exactly are the rhetorical strategies of literary criticism, and how can they best be taught? This book tells us, applying a sure grasp of theory to rich empirical case studies. --John L. Schilb, Culbertson Chair of Writing and professor of English, Indiana University As some current writing theorists have it, literary critics do not share any rhetorical conventions in common, or if they do these conventions can't be explicitly taught, or they should not be taught lest we impose an oppressive dominant discourse on students. These views are devastatingly refuted by Laura Wilder's well-researched book. As Wilder shows, literary critics (and academic writers generally) do employ a common set of conventions, and if we fail to teach these conventions explicitly, we simply hide the secrets of success. --Gerald Graff, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Clueless in Academe

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Laura Wilder is assistant professor of English at the University at Albany-SUNY and has published essays in Rhetoric Review and Written Communication.

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