{"data":{"id":296,"title":"The Centrality of Style","edition_statement":null,"volume":null,"copyright_year":2013,"isbn10":null,"isbn13":"9781602354227","license":"Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs","language":"eng","accessibility_statement":null,"accessibility_features":["unknown"],"description":"InThe Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field. Calling attention to this paradox in his foreword to the collection, Paul Butler observes, \"Many of the chapters work within the liminal space in which style serves as both a centralizing and decentralizing force in rhetoric and composition. Clearly, the authors and editors have made an invaluable contribution in their collection by exposing the paradoxical nature of a canon that continues to play a vital role in our disciplinary history.\"","contributors":[{"id":3325,"contribution":"Author","primary":true,"corporate":false,"title":null,"first_name":"Mike","middle_name":null,"last_name":"Duncan","location":"University of Houston-Downtown","background_text":"Mike Duncan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing and rhetoric. He has published articles on style and related issues in journals including College English, JAC, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, as well as in edited collections."},{"id":3326,"contribution":"Author","primary":false,"corporate":false,"title":null,"first_name":"Star","middle_name":null,"last_name":"M. Vanguri","location":"Nova Southeastern University","background_text":"Star M. Vanguri is an associate professor of writing in the Department of Writing and Communication at Nova Southeastern University. She has been at NSU since 2010 and has served as chair of the MA in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program and as advisor for several graduate thesis projects. Her research interests include stylistics, onomastics, spatial rhetorics, critical discourse analysis, and classroom writing assessment. Currently, she is editing a collection titled Rhetorics of Names and Naming (forthcoming from Routledge) and is a co-PI on grant project titled The Effects of Explicit Instruction on Sentence Fluency and Style, funded by the CCCC Research Initiative. She is co-editor of The Centrality of Style (WAC Clearinghouse/Parlor Press, 2013). Her work has also appeared in Rhetoric Review and the Journal of Writing Research."}],"subjects":[{"id":5,"name":"Education","parent_subject_id":null,"call_number":"L7","visible_textbooks_count":144,"url":"https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/education"},{"id":6,"name":"Humanities","parent_subject_id":null,"call_number":null,"visible_textbooks_count":418,"url":"https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/humanities"},{"id":33,"name":"Literature, Rhetoric, and Poetry","parent_subject_id":6,"call_number":"PE1408","visible_textbooks_count":124,"url":"https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/literature-rhetoric-and-poetry"},{"id":27,"name":"Higher Education","parent_subject_id":5,"call_number":"LC980","visible_textbooks_count":34,"url":"https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/higher-education"}],"publishers":[{"id":493,"url":"http://wac.colostate.edu/books/centrality/","year":null,"created_at":"2018-09-07T12:22:40.000-05:00","updated_at":"2018-09-07T12:22:40.000-05:00","name":"WAC Clearinghouse"}],"formats":[{"id":831,"type":"PDF","url":"https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/centrality/","price":{"cents":0,"currency_iso":"USD"},"isbn":null},{"id":832,"type":"eBook","url":"https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/centrality/","price":{"cents":0,"currency_iso":"USD"},"isbn":null}],"rating":"4.5","textbook_reviews_count":1,"reviews":[{"id":34348,"first_name":"Heather","last_name":"Weddington","position":"Lecturer","institution_name":"Old Dominion University","comprehensiveness_rating":4,"comprehensiveness_review":"The Centrality of Style provides a useful primer on how and why to teach style in composition classrooms. The book offers 19 different authors' (some represented twice in additional chapters) take on either conceptualizing or applying style.","accuracy_rating":5,"accuracy_review":"As someone who comes to the study and teaching of rhet/comp from the study of creative writing, particularly creative nonfiction, I particular appreciated chapters that bridged the gap between applying 'craft' in creative writing courses and style in composition courses.","relevance_rating":4,"relevance_review":"While I will ultimately not assign the entire textbook to my 300-level composition class, it is still highly relevant to me as I think through the ways and means of teaching style. And I might end up assigning a chapter or two.","clarity_rating":4,"clarity_review":"Clear introduction, chapters, organization.","consistency_rating":5,"consistency_review":"The textbook is internally consistent, particularly in its acknowledgement of the place of 'style' within the field, and the reasons for that not to be the case.","modularity_rating":5,"modularity_review":"Modular text from which chapters could be assigned easily.","organization_rating":5,"organization_review":"Smartly organized into conceptualization and application.","interface_rating":5,"interface_review":"Clean interface.","grammatical_rating":5,"grammatical_review":"No grammatical errors.","cultural_rating":5,"cultural_review":"The chapters I read were broadly inclusive.","overall_rating":9,"overall_review":null,"created_at":"2023-01-06T16:40:50.000-06:00","updated_at":"2023-01-06T16:40:50.000-06:00"}],"url":"https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-centrality-of-style","updated_at":"2026-05-18T02:06:13.000-05:00"}}