College Composition and Communication, Vol. 51, No. 3, February 2000

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Lyons, Scott Richard. “Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?” CCC 51.3 (2000): 447-468.

Abstract:

After years of colonization, oppression, and resistance, American Indians are making clear what they want from the heretofore compromised technology of writing. Rhetorical sovereignty, a people’s control of its meaning, is found in sites legal, aesthetic, and pedagogical, and composition studies can both contribute to and learn from this work.

Keywords:

ccc51.3 Sovereignty People Indian Writing RhetoricalSovereignty Nations NativeAmerican Community Power Land Rhetoric History Treaties Culture

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Wells, Susan. ” Rogue Cops and Health Care: What Do We Want from Public Writing? ” College Composition and Communication 47 (1996): 325-41.

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Davis, Robert and Mark Shadle. “‘Building a Mystery’: Alternative Research Writing and the Academic Act of Seeking.” CCC 51.3 (2000): 417-446.

Abstract:

Alternative forms of research writing that displace those of modernism are unfolded, ending with “multi-writing,” which incorporates multiple genres, disciplines, cultures, and media to syncretically gather post/modern forms. Such alternatives represent a shift in academic values toward a more exploratory inquiry that honors mystery.

Keywords:

ccc51.3 Research ResearchPaper Students Writing Alternative Inquiry MultiWriting Postmodernism Genre Multimedia

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Barton, Ellen. “More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation.” CCC 51.3 (2000): 399-416.

Abstract:

Negative argumentation about methodological approaches threatens to limit the field of composition: it exacerbates the tension concerning the place and value of empirical studies in research; it potentially limits the field’s ability to ask certain kinds of research questions; and it risks impoverishing the methodological education offered to new practitioners in the field.

Keywords:

ccc51.3 Research Composition Field ResearchQuestions Studies Methodology Researchers Ethics Empiricism NegativeArgumentation GraduateStudy

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Horner, Bruce. “Traditions and Professionalization: Reconceiving Work in Composition.” CCC 51.3 (2000): 366-398.

Abstract:

The derogation of the “traditional” in the discourse of academic professionalism in composition studies overlooks practices within tradition that may be counter or alternative to the hegemonic. Aspects of the Amherst College “tradition” of English 1-2 illustrate, in idealized form, alternative practices drawing from residual elements of dominant culture.

Keywords:

ccc51.3 Knowledge Composition Work Tradition Teaching Practices Amherst Lore SNorth Professionalism Alternative WorkingKnowledge

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