Dr. Elif Guler, Assistant Professor\u00a0and\u00a0Coordinator of Longwood’s Professional Writing Program, recently facilitated a pedagogical workshop,\u00a0presented a paper,\u00a0and co-chaired a special interest group at the 2019 Conference on College Composition Communication (CCCC) which took place from March 13-16 in Pittsburgh, PA. Since 1949, CCCC has been the world\u2019s largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media.<\/p>\n
Dr. Guler facilitated a workshop entitled, \u201c(Un)veiling Mediated Texts for an Intercultural\/International Performance of Rhetoric,” which\u00a0modeled the use\u00a0of\u00a0cross-national\u00a0mediated texts (e.g., translated television debates and social movement sites), in order to\u00a0expand students\u2019 perception of non-Western cultures. The unit introduced an instructional unit which aimed to help students explore non-Western\u00a0women\u2019s dress styles (often stigmatized in Western contexts) and the surrounding discourses\u00a0as rhetorical artifacts. The unit aims to\u00a0hone students’ critical thinking skills through a cross-cultural understanding of rhetorical action.<\/p>\n
Dr. Guler’s paper entitled,\u00a0“Recovering Turkish Principles of \u2018How to Perform Rhetoric\u2019 from Yusuf\u2019s\u00a0Wisdom of Royal Glory<\/em>,” examined non-Western principles of rhetoric evident in the aforementioned text (1069) and how the text aims to\u00a0educate an ideal agent who has to study language so s\/he can effectively communicate with and utilize authority and power. By sharing the writing\u00a0assignments developed for her rhetoric\/writing courses at\u00a0Longwood, Dr. Guler also discussed how Yusuf’s\u00a0text can help contemporary writing students explore different national cultures and a moral\u00a0understanding of rhetorical agency.\u00a0Dr. Guler presented her paper as part of a\u00a0panel entitled, “Defying the Rhetorical Tradition: A Multinational Performance of Rhetoric-Composition,” which she organized with a diverse group of scholars focusing on Ethiopian, Indian, and Chinese rhetorical traditions. The panel was chaired by Cheryl Glenn, the 2019 CCCC Exemplar Awardee and Distinguished Professor of English (Writing and Rhetoric) at the Penn State University.<\/p>\n Finally, Dr. Guler also co-chaired the Special Interest Group on Non-Western\/Global Rhetorics – a standing group which\u00a0seeks to increase rhetorical knowledge globally, to create new kinds of collaborations, and to welcome “Other” rhetorical traditions (Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Asian, African, and indigenous American, and so on) to the disciplinary conversations at CCCC.<\/p>\n
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