Issue 25
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Multimodal Rhetorics
2017

"Rhetoricians must pay attention to the way transnational, non-state actors mediate, repurpose, disseminate, and circulate cultural memories that have been rendered portable and malleable to fulfill specific economic and sociopolitical agendas."

—Sharon Yam, "Instagramming the Starbucks Bing Sutt: Nostalgia Memory Kitsch and the Construction of Cosmopolitan Consumer Subjects"
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Articles

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Materialist Rhetoric and "For Us(e)" Assessment—A Response Essay

James Beasley
In a February 2016 Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Don’t Be Cruel,” Thomas Batt wrote about the dangers of being too harsh on student papers. While Batts’s article repeats many already-known ideas about the best ways of responding to student work, it presumes that teacher commentary is always generated by teachers themselves, a position that does not account for their relation within the institutional apparatus—specifically, the institutional apparatus of state-mandated assessments.