Rhetorical Strategies for Professional Development - Investment Mentoring in Classrooms and Workplaces

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Building an Investment Approach to Mentoring in Rhetoric and Writing Practice
3 A Feminist Methodological Approach for Locating and Inventing Mentoring
4 Challenging Communities of Practice: How Investment Mentoring Aids Career-Long Learning
5 Investment Mentoring Is Rhetorical Work That Builds Relationships
6 Pedagogical Implications for Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Case Examples of Mentoring in a Residential College
7 Using Investment Mentoring as a Framework for Seeing and Inventing Rhetorical Work

About the author

Elizabeth J. Keller is an assistant professor of English and Linguistics at Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA. She specializes in technical communication, workplace writing, and learning theory. Her research examines how, with the help of mentoring, people form relationships that influence their ability to write and communicate, learn, and transfer knowledge over the duration of their career. Her scholarship is available in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Communication Design Quarterly, and Technical Communication Quarterly.

Summary

This book extends current research around mentoring and learning theory, illustrating how mentoring creates, enacts, and sustains multidisciplinary learning in a variety of school, work, and community contexts. It uses mentoring as a way to reimagine value-added approaches to research and teaching practices in Rhetoric and Composition.

Product details

• Authors: Keller, Elizabeth J. Keller, Elizabeth J. (Indiana University-Purdue Un Keller, Elizabeth J. (Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Keller
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815371748
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7174-8
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication; Routledge Research in Writing Studies; Routledge Research in Writing Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, EDUCATION / Professional Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Mentoring & Coaching, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General