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Includes essays that illustrate and analyze various classroom-based strategies for productive collaboration between literature and composition. This work covers topics that span textuality and critical pedagogy, argumentation and hybrid genres, student engagement and popular culture, and materiality and assessment.

This volume aims to synthesize and situate the systematic study of discourse explicitly in the field of composition. Each chapter follows a common tri-partite structure: a description of an approach to discourse analysis; a case study using that approach; and a discussion of its value.

This work calls attention to the ways that teachers of writing must attend to the idea of the classroom, must be conscious of the spaces in which they meet students and must be aware of the physical, material conditions that constrain or affect the teaching of writing.

Based on the premise that writing centers know how to guide learners toward more productive and successful work, this collection focuses on helping the academy understand writing centers. It articulates how writing centers move beyond remediation and become centers of learning and teaching through fostering productive working relationships.

Based on the premise that writing centers know how to guide learners toward more productive and successful work, this volume includes scholarship that provides historical, theoretical, and practical guidance for both writing centers and their campus communities.

Includes essays that illustrate and analyze various classroom-based strategies for productive collaboration between literature and composition. This work covers topics that span textuality and critical pedagogy, argumentation and hybrid genres, student engagement and popular culture, and materiality and assessment.

An empirical study of basic writing in the contemporary academy. It examines perceptions of in-school writing and how basic writing programmes have been created and maintained by drawing on basic writing syllabi and programmes in different American colleges and universities.

Much of the theory underlying technical communication, rhetoric, composition, and college English in general comes from a socialist/Marxist perspective, not the larger world-view - free-market, competitive, and capitalistic. This volume asserts a theoretical and practical stance based on free-market mechanisms and behaviors.

This text aims to advance a radical re-conception of genre and discourse, and to enhance understanding of reading, writing, speaking and listening as socially situated and motivated activities. The chapters offer critical methods and conceptual frameworks for understanding discourse.

This book dialogically links scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and English Studies to the perspectives of faculty outside of English, and by so doing manages to both challenge and expand current thinking about writing pedagogy.

This volume contributes to our understanding of literacy as a multi-faceted, complexly situated activity. Freeing literacy from a specific site or set of practices allows us to see it as a way to consider the experiences, memories, and histories of those who use literacy to make meaning in their lives.

Steps into the debate about how doctoral programs should prepare students for the profession. The contributors explore the conceptual and practical specifics of a refocused training and build a compelling argument that providing students a stable identity is less crucial than preparing them to adopt myriad and shifting professional personas.

Brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutions, methodologies and genres, who are interested in writing and preparing teachers and researchers of writing. This book covers, topics such as writing assessment, teaching writing and teacher preparation, graduate education, electronic technologies, community literacy, and more.

This book examines the role that rhetoric plays in the creation and conceptualization of new knowledge claims. It highlights how scientists worked with the linguistic resources available to them to bring into existence abstract concepts and gain new insight into the subject of their study.

Much of the theory underlying technical communication, rhetoric, composition, and college English in general comes from a socialist/Marxist perspective, not the larger world-view - free-market, competitive, and capitalistic. This volume asserts a theoretical and practical stance based on free-market mechanisms and behaviors.

Offers a vision of postsecondary writing programs using the example of the Temple University writing program in Philadelphia.

Aimed at the writing teachers and writing program administrators within postsecondary institutions, this book provides theoretical models and methods for helping them conduct the interdisciplinary, collaborative consulting activities that are common with formal and information writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs.

Discusses deprivatized pedagogy, a tool for shaping classroom practice. It is a way to interior gate classroom practices which are traditionally in inexplicably privatized. The authors hope to provide a space to raise questions, evoke critiques, and embark on the path to self-reflexivity in the practice of teaching and learning.

This work calls attention to the ways that teachers of writing must attend to the idea of the classroom, must be conscious of the spaces in which they meet students and must be aware of the physical, material conditions that constrain or affect the teaching of writing.

Through ethnographic research with students, this book contends that many composition teachers' training in critical theory may lead them to misread implicit social meanings in working class, minority, and immigrant students' writing and thinking.

Steps into the debate about how doctoral programs should prepare students for the profession. The contributors explore the conceptual and practical specifics of a refocused training and build a compelling argument that providing students a stable identity is less crucial than preparing them to adopt myriad and shifting professional personas.

Brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutions, methodologies and genres, who are interested in writing and preparing teachers and researchers of writing. This book covers, topics such as writing assessment, teaching writing and teacher preparation, graduate education, electronic technologies, community literacy, and more.

Offers a comprehensive definition of feminist pedagogy culled from over three decades of scholarship. This book focuses on the field of composition and how feminist theories of pedagogy have changed the field of writing instruction.

Explores tensions surrounding the teaching of literacy in three settings of nontraditional adult education: correctional education, vocational education, and the Highlander Folk School.

This book engages the formative influence on composition studies of the 1974 ""Students' Right"" to Their Own Language"" resolution. Combining elements of documentary history and a collection of original scholarship, it considers professional hopes for the teaching of writing.

This collection of essays examines and experiments with changing notions of writing about and in electronic spaces, as well as visualizing how some of this writing might appear were it captured in print.

This text is a critique of the debate between cognitivists and social constructionists. It argues against fragmented views that the dialectic between identity and text can be reduced to mind of society, body or economics, nature or nurture.

This volume contributes to our understanding of literacy as a multi-faceted, complexly situated activity. Freeing literacy from a specific site or set of practices allows us to see it as a way to consider the experiences, memories, and histories of those who use literacy to make meaning in their lives.

This collection of essays examines and experiments with changing notions of writing about and in electronic spaces, as well as visualizing how some of this writing might appear were it captured in print.