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Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy

Author(s): Chris W. Gallagher

Persuasively written and thoroughly researched, Radical Departures addresses some big questions: the position of Composition in the academy and its growth as a discipline; the current political climate, with its calls for standardized testing and accountability; the uneasy relationships between faculty in English and English education departments; and the (lack of) cooperation between postsecondary compositionists and P–12 language arts teachers.

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Reading as Rhetorical Invention: Knowledge, Persuasion, and the Teaching of Research-Based Writing

Author(s): Doug Brent

In Reading as Rhetorical Invention, Brent asserts that reading is an important way of participating in the unending dialogue by which we create our meanings and beliefs

Level(s): College

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Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers

Author(s): Lee Ann Carroll

In Rehearsing New Roles, Lee Ann Carroll argues for a developmental perspective to counter the fantasy held by many college faculty that students should, or could, be taught to write once so that ever after they can write effectively on any topic, any place, any time.

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Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers

Editor(s): Peter Vandenberg, Sue Hum, Jennifer Clary-Lemon

This collection of previously published essays and newly written commentary essays focuses on the postprocess movement in comp studies, a movement that takes into account the sociomaterial nature of writing.

Level(s): College

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Representing the "Other": Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing

Author(s): Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu

Arguing that representations of the "problems" of basic writers often risk perpetuating students' marginal position in higher education, Horner and Lu provide an important reinterpretation of the emergence of basic writing as a field.

Level(s): College

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Responding to Student Poems: Applications of Critical Theory

Author(s): Patrick Bizzaro

Responding to Student Poems urges writing teachers to “better understand themselves as writers and readers.” For Bizzaro this means questioning our own preconceived critical biases and expanding the range of responses offered to the student-writer.

Level(s): College

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Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching

Author(s): Margaret Marshall

Scrutinizing the relationship between scholarship and teaching, Margaret J. Marshall calls for a reconceptualization of what it means to prepare for and enter the field of composition instruction.

Level(s): College

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Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts

Author(s): Julie Jung

In this precise and provocative treatise, Julie Jung augments the understanding and teaching of revision by arguing that the process should entail changing attitudes rather than simply changing texts.

Level(s): College

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Rural Literacies

Author(s): Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, Eileen Schell

Identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literacy in rural areas, and reviews traditional misrepresentations of rural literacy.

Level(s): College

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Scenarios for Teaching Writing: Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice

Author(s): Chris M. Anson, Joan Graham, David A. Jolliffe, Nancy S. Shapiro, Carolyn H. Smith

This volume offers teaching assistants, new faculty members, and adjunct instructors "real-world" scenarios about the many facets of teaching introductory college composition.

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