In Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines, Laura Wilder argues that literary critics employ a common set of rhetorical conventions, but they are, regrettably, kept hidden from students. Many composition scholars believe that teaching conventional approaches (genre) to writing is oppressive and stifles student creativity by imposing a dominant discursive power structure. Wilder carefully refutes all that. She claims that explicit instruction in the disciplinary topoi would offer a source of creativity.
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