Composition in the Twenty-first Century: Crisis and ChangeLynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, Edward Michael White The essays in this book, stemming from a national conference of the same name, focus on the single subject required of nearly all college students--composition. Despite its pervasiveness and its significance, composition has an unstable status within the curriculum. Writing programs and writing faculty are besieged by academic, political, and financial concerns that have not been well understood or addressed. At many institutions, composition functions paradoxically as both the gateway to academic success and as the gatekeeper, reducing access to academic work and opportunity for those with limited facility in English. Although writing programs are expected to provide services that range from instruction in correct grammar to assisting--or resisting--political correctness, expanding programs and shrinking faculty get caught in the crossfire. The bottom line becomes the firing line as forces outside the classroom determine funding and seek to define what composition should do. In search of that definition, the contributors ask and answer a series of specific and salient questions: What implications--intellectual, political, and institutional--will forces outside the classroom have on the quality and delivery of composition in the twenty-first century? How will faculty and administrators identify and address these issues? What policies and practices ought we propose for the century to come? This book features sixteen position papers by distinguished scholars and researchers in composition and rhetoric; most of the papers are followed by invited responses by other notable compositionists. In all, twenty-five contributors approach composition from a wide variety of contemporary perspectives: rhetorical, historical, social, cultural, political, intellectual, economic, structural, administrative, and developmental. They propose solutions applicable to pedagogy, research, graduate training of composition teachers, academic administration, and public and social policy. In a very real sense, then, this is the only book to offer a map to the future of composition. |
Contents
Voices from the Community College Sylvia | 29 |
Inventing the University Student Response by Kurt Spellmeyer | 39 |
A Short History Robert | 47 |
CurrentTraditional Rhetoric and Process Models | 64 |
Suzuki Method Composition in the 21st Century | 75 |
A Utopian View Peter | 83 |
Will Writing Teachers | 101 |
Huot | 112 |
Enlarging the Community Response by Erika Lindemann | 177 |
Moving Writing Research into the 21st Century Sarah Warshauer | 183 |
The Death of Paradigm Hope the End of Paradigm Guilt and | 194 |
Research Teaching and Public Policy Response by Sandra | 208 |
English Studies Work and Politics in the New Economy James | 215 |
Dilemmas of Identity Shirley Brice | 226 |
Composition in a New Economic and Social | 243 |
Literate Action Linda Flower | 249 |
The Long Revolution in Composition Anne Ruggles Gere | 119 |
Writing Instruction and the Politics of Professionalization John | 133 |
Seeking a Disciplinary Reformation Response by Charles I | 146 |
Whom Should Composition Teach and What | 153 |
Are They Kissing | 166 |
What Is at Stake | 261 |
Mapping Compositions New Geography Lynn Z Bloom | 273 |
Works Cited | 281 |
Contributors | 297 |
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Composition in the Twenty-first Century: Crisis and Change Lynn Z. Bloom,Donald A. Daiker,Edward Michael White No preview available - 1996 |
Composition in the Twenty-first Century: Crisis and Change Lynn Z. Bloom,Donald A. Daiker,Edward Michael White No preview available - 1996 |