College Composition and Communication, Vol. 51, No. 1, September 1999

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Welch, Nancy. “Playing with Reality: Writing Centers after the Mirror Stage.” CCC 51.1 (1999): 51-69.

Abstract:

Between the daily reality and theoretical visions of writing center work, Welch points to disharmonies that perpetuate the opinion in the field for centers to “get real” and abandon high ideals and theories to teach “practical writing.” Using Lacan and psychoanalytical theories of object-relation development, Welch juxtaposes these arguments to pursue the practical with the potential for productive investigation and change in the gap between theory and practice, unsettling current ideas about students and writing.

Keywords:

ccc51.1 Writing Centers Tutors JLacan Mirror Stage Assignments Play Students Structure Ego Psychology Space

Works Cited

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Bruffee, Ken. “Peer Tutoring and the ‘Conversation of Mankind.'” Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Urbana: NCTE, 1984. 3-15.

Copjec, Joan. “Cutting Up.” Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Teresa Brennan. London: Routledge, 1989. 227-46.

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Grimm, Nancy Maloney. ” Rearticulating the Work of the Writing Center .” CCC 47 (1996): 523-48.

Harris, Muriel. “Talking in the Middle: Why Writers Need Writing Tutors.” College English 57 (1995): 27-42.

Haynes-Burton, Cynthia. “‘Hanging Your Alias on Their Scene’: Writing Centers, Graffiti, and Style.” Writing Center Journal 14 (1994): 112-24.

Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Norton, 1977.

Laing, R. D. The Divided Self. New York: Pantheon, 1969.

North, Stephen. “The Idea of a Writing Center.” College English 46 (1984): 433-46.

—. “Revisiting ‘The Idea of a Writing Center.'” The Writing Center Journal 15 (1994): 7-19.

Stern, Daniel. The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. New York: Basic, 1985.

Warnock, Tilly, and John Warnock. “Liberatory Writing Centers: Restoring Authority to Writers.” Writing Centers: Theory and Administration. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Urbana: NCTE, 1984. 16-23.

Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality. London: Tavistock, 1971.

—. Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis. New York: Grove, 1986.

Wright, Elizabeth. Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice. London: Routledge, 1989.

Yagelski, Robert P. “The Ambivalence of Reflection: Critical Pedagogies, Identity, and the Writing Teacher.” CCC 51.1 (1999): 32-50.

Abstract:

Yagelski examines the self-doubt of teachers struggling to be sensitive and empowering. This “reflective practice” in teaching that has become “an essential part of being an effective writing teacher” (34) offers the opportunity to use the doubt to gain insight into the teacher-student relationship, institutional teacher identity, and the generative results of a writing class where the needs and abilities of the student are at the center of the teaching.

Keywords:

ccc51.1 Teachers Students Pedagogy PFreire Identity Zen Doubt CriticalPedagogy

Works Cited

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Brannon, Lil and C. H. Knoblauch. Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1993.

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—. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. Myra Ramos. New York: Continuum, 1984.

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—. The Reflective Practitioner. New York: Basic, 1983.

Shor, Ira. Critical Teaching and Everyday Life. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.

Smith, Jeff. “Students’ Goals, Gatekeeping, and Some Questions of Ethics.” College English 59 (1997): 299-320.

Tobin, Lad. Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Classroom. Portsmouth: Boynton, 1993.

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Trungpa, Chogyam. Meditation in Action. Boston: Shambala, 1991.

Weiser, Irwin. “Self-Assessment, Reflection, and the New Teacher of Writing.” Kathleen Yancey and Jane Smith, eds. Self Assessment and Development in Writing. Cresskill: Hampton P, forthcoming.

Yancey, Kathleen. Reflection in the Writing Classroom. Logan: Utah State UP, 1998.

Bishop, Wendy. “Places to Stand: The Reflective Writer-Teacher-Writer in Composition.” CCC 51.1 (1999): 9-31.

Abstract:

Bishop exposes the tendency of “social epistemic hardliners” (12) to essentialize and oversimplify expressivist writers, theorists and teachers. She examines the many “personas” of the “teacher-writer, writer-teacher” (13), and calls for “more writing about our writing” (29) that includes dialogic interaction between expressivist and social constructionist methods and methodologies rather than placing them in opposition to one another.

Keywords:

ccc51.1 Writing Composition Teaching Expressivism PElbow DMurray Teachers Students Field Literature Reflection

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Geisler, Cheryl. “Exploring Academic Literacy: An Experiment in Composing.” CCC 43 (1992): 39-54.

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Lyne, William. “White Purposes.” Genre and Writing: Issues, Arguments, Alternatives. Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom, eds. Portsmouth: Boynton, 1997. 73-80.

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Murray, Donald M. “All Writing Is Autobiography.” CCC 42 (1991): 66-74.

—. “A Preface on Rejection.” Writing on the Edge 5.2 (1994): 29-30.

O’Donnell, Thomas. “Politics and Ordinary Language: A Defense of Expressivist Rhetorics.” College English 59 (1996): 423-39.

Olson, Gary. “Encountering the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Composition Scholarship.” JAC 18 (1998): 45-55.

Ostrom, Hans. “Countee Cullen: How Teaching Rewrites the Genre of ‘Writer'”. Genre and Writing: Issues, Arguments, Alternatives. Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom, eds. Portsmouth: Boynton, 1997. 93-104.

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