College Composition and Communication, Vol. 58, No. 3, February 2007

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Sosnoski, James J. “Review Essay: Reflections on the Future of Rhetorical Education.” Rev. of Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman; Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms by Marguerite Helmers, ed.; Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 by Cris Tovani; Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice by Kathleen Blake Yancey. CCC 58.3 (2007): 495-513.

Jolliffe, David A. “Review Essay: Learning to Read as Continuing Education.” Rev. of Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse by Candace Spigelman; Rhetorical Education in America by Cheryl Glenn, Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer; Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers by Kelli Cargile Cook, and Keith Grant-Davie, eds. CCC 58.3 (2007): 470-494.

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Himley, Margaret, Christine R. Farris, and Phillip P. Marzluf. “Interchanges. Responses to Phillip P. Marzluf, ‘Diversity Writing: Natural Languages, Authentic Voices.'” CCC 58.3 (2007): 449-469.

Simmons, W. Michele, and Jeffrey T. Grabill. “Toward a Civic Rhetoric for Technologically and Scientifically Complex Places: Invention, Performance, and Participation.” CCC 58.3 (2007): 419-448.

Abstract

The spaces in which public deliberation most often takes place are institutionally, technologically, and scientifically complex. In this article, we argue that in order to participate, citizens must be able to invent valued knowledge. This invention requires using complex information technologies to access, assemble, and analyze information in order to produce the professional and technical performances expected in contemporary civic forums. We argue for a civic rhetoric that expands to research the complicated nature of interface technologies, the inventional practices of citizens as they use these technologies, and the pedagogical approaches to encourage the type of collaborative and coordinated work these invention strategies require.

Keywords:

ccc58.3 Information Citizens Community Writing Knowledge Practices Rhetoric Organization Databases SteelMill Invention CivicRhetoric Rhetoric Public Web Access Interface Literacy Participation

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Carter, Michael. “Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines.” CCC 58.3 (2007): 385-418.

Abstract

One way of helping faculty understand the integral role of writing in their various disciplines is to present disciplines as ways of doing, which links ways of knowing and writing in the disciplines. Ways of doing identified by faculty are used to describe broader generic and disciplinary structures, metagenres, and metadisciplines.

Keywords:

ccc58.3 Disciplines Writing Faculty Students Knowledge Research WAC WID Genre Metagenre Design Assessment DRussell Metadisciplines Science

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Abstract

This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors.

Keywords:

ccc58.3 Literacy LiteracyWorkers LakeCounty Indiana LMIs Labor Employment Community Training Skills Unions Workforce

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Abstract

This article offers a critical perspective on the default mode of freshman composition instruction, that is, its traditionally middle-class and white racial orientation. Although middle-classness and whiteness have been topics of critical interest among compositionists in recent years, perhaps the most effective challenge to this hegemony in the classroom is not in our textbooks or critical discourse but in what many of our students already consume, the ghettocentricity expressed in the music of rappers like Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Eminem.

Keywords:

ccc58.3 Students HipHop MiddleClass Class Composition Whiteness Rap Ghetto LBloom Blackness Culture Eminem Consciousness America Writing Gangsta Identity FYC Race

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