Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing

Download or read book Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing written by James Porter and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-04-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing develops rhetoric theory as a heuristic tool for addressing the new ethical and legal complexities cyberwriters and writing teachers face on the Internet and World Wide Web. Porter conceptualizes rhetoric as an ethical operation (first by examining the rhetoric-ethics relationship in classical and modern rhetoric, then by turning to postmodern ethics, which revives a casuistic approach to ethics). In the second half of the book, Porter considers special cases involving electronic discourse on the networks that challenge or undermine conventional print-based law and ethics.