College Composition and Communication, Vol. 45, No. 3, October 1994

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McLeod, Alisea C. Williams. “Review Essay: ‘Race,’ Writing, and the Politics of Public Disclosure.” Rev. of Eating on the Street by David Schaafsma; Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color by Victor Villanueva; Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference by Henry Giroux. CCC 45.3 (1994): 389-400.

Kirsch, Gesa, et al. “Interchanges.” CCC 45.3 (1994): 381-388.

Kirscht, Judy, Rhonda Levine and John Reiff. “Evolving Paradigms: WAC and the Rhetoric of Inquiry.” CCC 45.3 (1994): 369-380.

Abstract:

The authors explore the theoretical and pedagogical implications of what they claim as a major conflict in the field of writing, particularly WAC, between a belief in teaching voice versus a believe in teaching discourse conventions in specific fields. The authors contend that the conflict is based on a false dichotomy and that the practice of a “rhetoric of inquiry” would synthesize differences.

Keywords:

ccc45.3 Students Writing Composition Inquiry Discipline Knowledge WAC Process Conventions Data Questions Study Teaching Field Faculty Methods

Works Cited

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Bazerman, Charles. “Codifying the Social Scientific Style: The APA Publication Manual as a Behaviorist Rhetoric.” The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. Ed. John Nelson, Allan Megill, and Donald McCloskey. Madison: Wisconsin UP. 1987. 125-44.

—. “The Second Stage in Writing Across the Curriculum.” College English 53 (1991): 209-12.

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Berthoff, Ann E. “Killer Dichotomies: Reading In/Reading Out.” Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Kate Ronald and Hephzibah Roskelly. Portsmouth: Boynton. 1990: 12-24.

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Coe, Richard M. “An Apology for Form: or, Who Took the Form out of the Process?” College English 49 (1987) 13-28.

Cooper, Marilyn. “The Ecology of Writing.” College English, 48 (1986): 364-75.

D’Angelo, Frank. A Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric. Cambridge: Winthrop. 1975.

Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. Oxford UP, 1973.

Emig, Janet. “Writing as a Mode of Learning.” CCC 28 (1977): 122-28.

Faigley, Lester. “Competing Theories of Process: A Critique and a Proposal.” College English 48 (1986): 527-42.

Fulwiler, Toby. “Journals Across the Disciplines.” English Journal 69.4 (1980): 14-19.

Hairston, Maxine. “The Winds of Change: Thomas Kuhn and the Revolution in the Teaching of Writing.” CCC 33 (1982): 76-88.

Hamilton, David. “Interdisciplinary Writing.” College English 41 (1980): 780-96.

Macrorie, Ken. Telling Writing. New Rochelle: Hayden, 1970.

Maimon, Elaine, Gerald Belcher. Gail Hearn, Barbara Nodine, and Finbarr O’Connor. Writing in the Arts and Sciences. Cambridge: Winthrop, 1981.

McDonald, Susan Peck. “Problem Definition in Academic Writing.” College English 49 (1987): 315-31.

Moffett, James. Teaching the Universe of Discourse. Boston: Houghton, 1968.

Murray, Donald. “Teach Writing As Process. Not Product.” Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Richard L. Graves. New Rochelle: Hayden, 1976:79-82.

Myer, Greg. “The Social Construction of Two Biologists’ Proposals.” Written Communication 2 (1985): 219-45.

Myer, Greg. “Writing Research and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: a Review of Three New Books.” College English 48 (1986): 595-608.

Nelson. John S., Allan Megill, and Donald N. McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1987.

Russell, David R. Writing in the Academic Disciplines. 1870-1990: A Curricular History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Shaughnessy, Mina P. Errors and Expectations. Oxford UP, 1977.

Ewald, Helen Rothschild and David L. Wallace. “Exploring Agency in Classroom Discourse or, Should David Have Told His Story?” CCC 45.3 (1994): 342-368.

Abstract:

The authors state a tension exists in the composition field between those who advocate student-centered pedagogy those who advocate the importance of knowledge transfer from teacher to student. They examine an excerpt from classroom discourse and the interpretations of the teacher and four students of the discourse. Claiming that both teacher and students are constructed agents in the classroom, the authors state that both construct meaning even as they are constructed by classroom discourse and its power dynamics.

Keywords:

ccc45.3 Students Classrooms Story Agency Discourse Class Teachers Action Discussion Interpretation AffirmativeAction Authority Women Topics ClassroomDiscourse

Works Cited

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Boggs, William O. “Comment on ‘Pedagogy of the Distressed.”’ College English 54 (1992): 477-80.

Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian, “Discourse and Diversity: Experimental Writing within the Academy.” CCC43 (1992): 349-68.

Carrol, Michael. “A Comment on ‘Pedagogy of the Distressed.”’ College English 53 (1991): 599-601.

Caughie, Pamela. ”’Not Entirely Strange, . . . Not Entirely Friendly’: Passing and Pedagogy.” College English 54 (1992): 775-793.

Cazden, Courtney. Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 1988.

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Eichhorn, Jill, Sara Farris, Karen Hayes, Adriana Hernandez, Susan C. Jarratt, Karen Powers-Stubbs, and Marian M. Sciachitano. ” A Symposium on Feminist Experiences in the Composition Classroom .” CCC 43 (1992): 297-322.

Ewald, Helen Rothschild. “Comment on ‘Pedagogy of the Distressed.'” College English 54 (1992): 354-56.

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—. “On the Very Idea of a Discourse Community.” CCC 42 (1991): 425-445.

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Lamb, Catherine E. “Beyond Argument in Feminist Composition.” CCC 42 (1991): 11-24.

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Martin, Robert M. “Comment on ‘Pedagogy of the Distressed.”’ College English 54 (1992): 356-58.

McGann, Patrick. “Comment on ‘Pedagogy of the Distressed.'” College English 54 (1992): 358-60.

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Nystrand, Martin, and Adam Gamoran. “Instructional Discourse, Student Engagement, and Literature Achievement. Research in the Teaching of English 25 (1991): 261-290.

Peterson, Linda H. “Gender and the Autobiographical Essay.” CCC 42 (1991): 170-183.

Seabury, Marcia Bundy. “Another Comment on ‘Pedagogy of the Distressed.'” College English 53 (1991): 714-717.

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Sipiora, Phillip and Janet Atwill. “Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: A Discussion with Gayatri Charkravoty Spivak.” Journal of Advanced Composition 10.2 (1990): 293-304.

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Stygall, Gail. “Resisting Privilege: Basic Writing and Foucault’s Author Function.” CCC 45.3 (1994): 320-341.

Abstract:

Stygall begins by chronicling various definitions of basic writing by different scholars and yet cedes its obvious use as a signifier of many valuations of students. Then by examining the correspondence between graduate students and undergraduate students from three universities, Stygall argues that the institutional practice of basic writing is constructed and prescribed by a type of Foucault’s author function and that teaching practices such as one teacher for each classroom, large numbers of students per class, and the separation of students by age and grade level keep the author function dominant.

Keywords:

ccc45.3 Students Writing Graduate Authors BasicWriters GraduateStudents Practices AuthorFunction MFoucault Teachers Teaching Education DiscursivePractices Class Privilege

Works Cited

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Brodkey, Linda. “On the Subjects of Class and Gender in the ‘Literacy Letters.”’ College English 51 (1989): 125-141.

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Recchio, Thomas E. “A Bakhtinian Reading of Student Writing.” CCC 42 (1991): 446-454.

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Sommers, Nancy. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.” A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. Ed. Theresa Enos. Manchester, MO: McGraw, 1987. 535-544.

Stygall, Gail. “Politics and Proof in Basic Writing.” Journal of Basic Writing 7.2 (1988): 28-41.

Williams, Joseph. “The Phenomenology of Error.” CCC 32 (1981): 152-168.

Herzberg, Bruce. “Community Service and Critical Teaching.” CCC 45.3 (1994): 307-319.

Abstract:

Herzberg argues that questions about social structures, ideology and social justice need to be intentionally addressed in community service learning classes. He critiques first how students often regard social problems as chiefly personal and thus dismiss systemic explanations for problems such as homelessness. Such community service learning results in charity not social change. Herzberg reviews his curriculum at the business school where he works and concludes with a summation of his goal: students as better citizens who practice rhetorical and practical social transformation.

Keywords:

ccc45.3 Students Service Shelter Class Schools Literacy Community Teaching Education Experience ServiceLearning MRose

Works Cited

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Knoblauch, C. H. “Critical Teaching and Dominant Culture.” Composition and Resistance. Ed. C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 1991. 12-21.

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