Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Linda Flower -- Introduction / Bruce McComiskey / Cynthia Ryan -- 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama / Peggy Jolly / Tracey Baker / Bruce McComiskey / Cynthia Ryan -- 2. Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City / Elizabeth Ervin / Dan Collins -- 3. Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing / Krista Hiser -- 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing / Paula Mathieu -- 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community / Susan Swan -- 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project / Marilyn McKinney / Ed Nagelhout -- 7. Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility / Van E. Hillard -- 8. Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies / Jeffrey T. Grabill -- 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies / Richard Marback -- 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University / David A. Jolliffe -- 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University" / Lynee Lewis Gaillet -- 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education / Barbara Gleason -- 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership / Ann M. Feldman -- 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Patrick Bruch |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Education, Urban -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
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Urban universities and colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies
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EDUCATION -- History.
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EDUCATION -- Comparative.
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Education, Urban -- Social aspects
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-
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Ryan, Cynthia
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ISBN |
1417519282 |
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9781417519286 |
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0791455491 |
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9780791455494 |
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0791455505 |
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9780791455500 |
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9780791487723 |
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0791487725 |
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