"The editors of Present Tense are pleased to announce a new issue focused on a range of topics, from race and law to the politics of higher education. Volume 4.2 includes articles that explore rhetoric as it exists in many different places, especially as it is employed by disempowered and disenfranchised groups in politically contested
"When groups are not allowed access to participate on the dominant platform, they “make do” by refashioning the space using everyday materials that are available to them"
"Stakeholders may celebrate the nod toward academics in the term student-athlete; however, such a descriptor serves only to reinforce the marginalized status of over 450,000 student-athletes in American higher education."
"Phoenix’s advertisements galvanize a fear of the now and challenge prospective students to respond, framing the opportune moment as a last chance at economic security."
"We argue that “technical rhetorics” is a concept that has affordances for thinking about how to critically communicate with public audiences about specialized information."
"This bibliography may also be useful to scholars looking to publish in queer rhetorics to identify journals that have been particularly open or hospitable to certain queer approaches."
"Sarah Tinker Perrault examines popular science writing to highlight how communication between science and civic society has inhibited the formation of a democratic process of communication between these two populations."
"Rhetorics of Motherhood unveils this discursive construction of motherhood within three distinct historical and American contexts to theorize motherhood as a rhetorical strategy that both disadvantages and advantages women."
