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2018
Volume 75, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Archived tobacco industry documents reveal a relationship in the 1970s and 1980s between the author of a first-year writing textbook and the Tobacco Institute, a tobacco industry trade group. I present details of this relationship to argue for an expanded account of institutional influence on rhetoric and writing studies.

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