Writing from the margins : power and pedagogy for teachers of composition / Carolyn Ericksen Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Carolyn Ericksen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

ix, 284 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

Too often both composition teachers and their students experience knowledge and authority as unchanging entities that cannot be challenged in classroom exchanges. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and poststructuralist theory, as well as work in the rhetorical tradition and composition studies, Hill offers less debilitating methods of thinking that teachers can model for their students. Richly illustrated with examples of classroom interactions and student work, the book also shows teachers how to enrich their own intellectual and political lives within the academy.

Contents:

Part I Boundaries: Where Birthing Takes Place

2. Students: At the Edges Looking In 33

3. Teachers: Author(iz)ing Hard and Soft Stories about Academia 70

Part II Currents in the Tradition

4. Four Midwives 101

5. Peripheral Visions from Rhetoric's Past 140

Part III Vortices: Where Turbulence Arises

6. Writers' Minds: Which System? 171

7. Time Passed from Reading to Writing to Reading 200

8. Grammar, Style, and Politics 226.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275).

ISBN:

0195061853

0195066375

OCLC:

20057080