Arguing Academic Merit: Meritocracy and the Rhetoric of the Personal Statement

Autor/in	Alvarez, Steven
Titel	Arguing Academic Merit: Meritocracy and the Rhetoric of the Personal Statement
Quelle	In: Journal of Basic Writing, 31 (2012) 2, S.32-56 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0147-1635
Schlagwörter	Governance; Intelligence; Ability; Social Systems; College Freshmen; Writing (Composition); Personal Narratives; Ethnography; Writing Assignments; Essays; Reflection; Planning; Portfolios (Background Materials); Rhetoric; Discourse Modes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Social system; Soziales System; Studienanfänger; Schreibübung; Erlebniserzählung; Ethnografie; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; Rhetorik; Diskursethik
Abstract	This article presents a pedagogical model for a sequence of first-year composition (FYC) assignments that encourages students' first-hand interpretations as insiders into the workings of educational meritocracy. I focus on how students negotiate the personal statement, an institutionally privileged genre for the discovery and definition of individual differences, characteristics, and aptitudes. I offer a Bourdiesian model of analysis of the rhetorical tactics students use to legitimate their cultural capital as academic merit. The tactics students enact become topoi for their own rhetorical analyses and arguments, which prove significant when competing for institutional resources. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01