The Politics of Writing Instruction: PostsecondaryNoted composition scholars such as James Berlin, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Robert Connors, Anne Ruggles Gere, Susan Miller, and James Slevin discuss the realities of composition as a discipline in the eighteen essays presented in The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. They survey the history of composition teaching and scholarship; the implications of feminist theory on writing programs and practices; hiring and firing in English departments; the politics of research in composition and writing program design; writing across the curriculum, writing assessment, and basic writing; and the cultural attitudes and imperatives that define and circumscribe literacy education and the teaching of writing. |
Contents
Depoliticizing and Politicizing Composition Studies | 1 |
Contested Boundaries | 23 |
The Feminization of Composition | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Electronic Writing Centers: Computing in the Field of Composition David Coogan No preview available - 1999 |