Reimagining Advocacy

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bodies, Perspectives, Advocacies

1. Attitudes toward Advocacy

2. At the Law School: Learning to Recognize the Expertise of Others

3. At the Hospital: Learning to Defer to Others

4. At the Courthouse: Learning to Support the Rhetorical Work of Others

Conclusion: Lessons

Appendix A: Research Methods

Appendix B: Interview Participants

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Overall, Elizabeth C. Britt’s Reimagining Advocacy is an exceptionally important text to contemporary rhetorical studies.”

—Madeline Denison, Argumentation and Advocacy