Educating 'Community Intellectuals': Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Engagement
http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15427625tcq1303_7
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Eble, Michelle F. and Lynee Lewis Gaillet
Technical Communication Quarterly
2004

Abstract:

This article encourages technical and professional communication programs to take on the challenge of educating students to become 'community intellectuals.' The notion of educating future professionals for a career needs to be reconsidered in light of both current research concerning civic rhetoric and past practices in moral humanism courses. The triumvirate of rhetoric, ethics, and moral philosophy provides an effective foundation for reconfiguring existing pedagogy in the field and offers insights for nurturing community intellectuals.