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Teaching composition as a social process Bruce McComiskey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric and psychology.
- Report writing--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
- Report writing.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bruce McComiskey is a strong advocate of social approaches to teaching writing. However, he opposes composition teaching that relies on cultural theory for content, because it too often prejudges the ethical character of institutions and reverts unnecessarily to product-centered practices in the classroom. He opposes what he calls the ""read-this-essay-and-do-what-the-author-did method of writing instruction: read Roland Barthes's essay 'Toys' and write a similar essay; read John Fiske's essay on TV and critique a show."" McComiskey argues for teaching writing a
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Three levels of composing
- Social-process rhetorical inquiry
- The post-process movement in composition studies
- Composing postmodern subjectivities in the aporia between identity and difference
- Critical discourse analysis in the composition class
- Writing in context
- Works cited
- Index
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780874213522
- 0874213525
- 9786613266811
- 9781283266819
- 1283266814
- OCLC:
- 646825712
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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