Is it possible/desirable to document how rhetoric and ethics  intertwine?

Both are processes of  inquiry used to negotiate judgments in a world of competing claims and divergent courses of action; neither are disconnected from day-to-day  living.

• Would an explicit connection provide insight into  how culture is taken up and lived by concrete individuals and groups in specific moments in time?

• Would it help make frameworks of meaning more easily understood, thereby adding to one's repertoire of rhetorical ethical calculation?

• Would it help students express themselves persuasively and self-critically while being empathetic to those views and practices different from their own?

Send a two-page abstract of pedagogical and/or theoretical essays that tackle such questions and others regarding ethics and rhetoric and the implications of the ways in which their relationship is represented by May 15, 2001 to

Daniel Collins
English Department
Manhattan College
Riverdale, NY 10471
dcollins@manhattan.edu

Or
Robert C. Sutton
Cape Fear Community College
411 N. Front Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
rcsutton@capefear.cc.nc.us