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Disciplinary discourse: explicating rhetorical and sociolinguistic networks in the archive and library

Herb, Amelia

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Title
Disciplinary discourse: explicating rhetorical and sociolinguistic networks in the archive and library
Author(s)
Herb, Amelia
Issue Date
2013-08-22T16:57:21Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Mortensen, Peter L.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Mortensen, Peter L.
Committee Member(s)
  • Hawisher, Gail E.
  • La Barre, Kathryn A.
  • Keller, Janet D.
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Date of Ingest
2013-08-22T16:57:21Z
Keyword(s)
  • disciplinarity
  • rhetoric
  • writing
  • metadisciplinarity
  • writing across the curriculum/writing in the discipline (WAC/WID)
  • archives
  • Library
  • library and information science (LIS)
  • domain analysis
  • Knowledge Organization
Abstract
This dissertation explicates the disciplinary rhetoric of the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) and its subsequent impact on the field of writing studies and the teaching of writing. Specifically, this inquiry includes four key aspects: theorizing the field of LIS as a metadiscipline that has similarities in scope and influence to the field of writing studies; illustrating how the rhetoric of the field of LIS can affect historiographic practices in writing studies; analyzing the discourse of LIS as found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings in order to reveal its rhetorical and the sociolinguistic import; finally, theorizing a method for utilizing LIS theories to improve the pedagogy of the research paper within composition courses. To accomplish this, I build on and synthesize theories from Stephen Mailloux, Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Birger Hjørland, and S.R. Ranganathan. What emerges is a response to specifically how and why writing studies needs to better understand our connection to LIS, as well as more broadly, how and why writing studies must research the influences of disciplines on one anther, specifically the implications of types of disciplines, such as interdiscipline and metadiscipline.
Graduation Semester
2013-08
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Copyright 2013 Amelia Herb

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