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History of rhetorical amateurs
Amateur porn and politicians: the commodity of “regular people” and its currency. Creating social imaginaries of amateurs.
Feeling like a “fraud.” The rhetoric of becoming legitimate. Creating social imaginaries of non-amateurs.
Technology, rhetoric, and the cycle of amateurism in teaching rhet-comp
Literacy and Love: Turning composition into an “amateur” enterprise
Students as profession-oriented and the reason we hate that (i.e., mourning the utility of college): “Whatever happened to attending school for the love of learning?”
Rhetoric and the Amateur 
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