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1 online resource (332 pages) |
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Introduction: Complicating composition / Christine Farris and Chris M. Anson -- pt. 1. The research/theory/practice relationship. 1. Theory, research, practice, work / Christopher Ferry -- 2. Composing composition studies: scholarly publication and the practice of discipline / Peter Vandenberg -- 3. Toward a theory of theory for composition studies / James Zebroski -- pt. 2. Critiquing theories in practice. 4. The dialogic function of composition pedagogy: negotiating between critical theory and public values / Rebecca Moore Howard -- 5. Keeping honest: working class students, difference, and rethinking the critical agenda in composition / David Seitz -- 6. Rethinking the personal narrative: life-writing and composition pedagogy / Deborah Mutnick -- 7. What difference the differences make: theoretical and epistemological differences in writing assessment practice / Brian Huot and Michael Williamson -- pt. 3. Refiguring and relocating research. 8. Voices of research: methodological choices of a disciplinary community / Susan Peck MacDonald -- 9. Grounded theory: a critical research methodology / Joyce Magnotto Neff -- 10. Feminist methodology: dilemmas for graduate researchers / Shirley Rose and Janice Lauer -- 11. Insider/outsider/other?: confronting the centeredness of race, class, color and ethnicity in composition research / Yuet-Sim Chiang -- 12. Re-centering authority: social reflexivity and re-positioning in composition research / Ellen Cushman and Terese Guinsatao Monberg -- 13. Tracking composition research on the World Wide Web / Susan Romano -- 14. Farther afield: rethinking the contributions of research / Ruth Ray and Ellen Barton -- pt. 4. Remaking knowledge and rewriting practice. 15. A rhetoric of teacher-talk or how to make more out of lore / Wendy Bishop -- 16. Theory, practice, and the bridge between: the methods course and reflective rhetoric / Kathleen Blake Yancey -- 17. Rewriting praxis (and redefining texts) in composition research / Nancy Maloney Grimm, Anne Frances Wysocki and Marilyn M. Cooper -- 18. Coming (in)to consciousness: one Asian American teacher's journey into activist teaching and research / Gail Okawa |
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Few composition scholars two decades ago would have imagined the rate at which their field is now developing, expanding beyond its boundaries, creating new alliances, and locating new sites for research and generation of knowledge. In their introduction to this volume, Farris and Anson argue that, faced with a welter of competing models, compositionists too quickly dichotomize and dismiss. The contributors to Under Construction, therefore, address themselves to the need for commerce among competing visions of the field. They represent diverse settings and distinct points |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-323) and index |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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Report writing -- Study and teaching
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
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Report writing -- Study and teaching
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Farris, Christine, 1949-
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Anson, Chris M., 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780874213188 |
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0874213185 |
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0585039305 |
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9780585039305 |
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1282822217 |
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9781282822214 |
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9786612822216 |
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661282221X |
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