Situating composition : composition studies and the politics of location / Lisa Ede.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ede, Lisa S., 1947-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Academic writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Political aspects.

United States.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Political aspects--United States.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Report writing.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

xvii, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Responding to a growing pedagogical paralysis in debates over the nature and status of composition studies as an academic discipline, Lisa Ede offers a provocative inquiry into the politics of composition's place in the academy. The result is a timely and engaging reflection on the rhetoric, ideology, and ethics of scholarship and instruction in composition studies today.

Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location delves into some of the most vexing issues presently facing the field: its status in relation to English studies, the nature and consequences of the writing process movement, the uneven professionalization of composition teachers, and the widening chasm between theory and practice. Ede interrogates key moments and texts in composition's evolution, from the writing process movement to Susan Miller's Textual Carnivals, through the interpretive lenses of historical analysis, theoretical critique, feminist and cultural theory, and Ede's own two decades of experiences as a teacher and writing program administrator.

Questioning the narratives of progress and paradigm shifts that inform the field's highly regarded recent theoretical studies, Ede urges scholars to carefully reconsider these claims, to honor the roles of teachers and students as more than dupes of ideology, and to more fully acknowledge-and utilize-the differences between the practice of theory and the practice of teaching. As academic hierarchies of knowledge increasingly privilege scholarship over instruction, Ede warns researchers to be cognizant of the politics and power inherent in their own location in the academy, particularly when professing to speak for teachers and students. To that end, the volume's conclusion advocates pragmatic avenues for change and proffers topics for future discussion and debate.

Contents:

Part 1 Composition in the Academy: Theory, Practice, Situation

Introduction: Some Opening Questions 3

1 What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Composition? 5

2 Situating Myself-And My Argument 21

Part 2 Rereading the Writing Process

Introduction: A Profession in the Making 41

3 Paradigms Lost: The Writing Process Movement and the Professionalization of Composition 47

4 On Process, Social Process, and Post-Process 81

Part 3 Thinking Through Practice

Introduction: Practice Makes Practice 113

5 On Theory, Theories, and Theorizing 122

6 Who's Disciplining Whom? 157

7 Situated Knowledges: Toward a Politics of Location in Composition 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.

ISBN:

0809325810

0809325829

OCLC:

55487738