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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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Texts of Our Institutional Lives: Performing the Rhetorical Freak Show: Disability, Student Writing, and College Admissions
- Source: College English, Volume 69, Issue 6, Jul 2007, p. 615 - 641
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- 01 Jul 2007
Abstract
Freak-show theories developed in disability studies can help us analyze how students with disabilities rhetorically represent these in college admissions essays. In particular, such theories draw attention to the social conditions that affect how disabilities are conceived and treated as well as depicted.
© 2007 by the National Council of Teachers of English