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Upsetting composition commonplaces / Ian Barnard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnard, Ian, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).
- English language.
- English language--Composition and exercises.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : Utah State University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Upsetting Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition still retains the bulk of instructional practices that were used in the decades before poststructuralist theory discredited them. While acknowledging that some of the foundational insights of poststructuralist theory can be difficult to translate to the classroom, Barnard upends several especially intransigent tenets that continue to influence the teaching of writing and how students are encouraged to understand writing.Using six major principles of writing classrooms and textbooks-clarity, intent, voice, ethnography, a
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: For Theory's Sake; Chapter 2. Clarity; Chapter 3. Intent; Chapter 4. Voice; Chapter 5. Ethnography; Chapter 6. Audience; Chapter 7. Objectivity; Chapter 8. Conclusion: Unbecoming Institutions; Appendix; References; About the Author; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781492012993
- 1492012998
- 9780874219470
- 0874219477
- OCLC:
- 890530495
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