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The politics of writing studies : reinventing our universities from below / Robert Samuels.
Van Pelt Library PE1405.U6 S255 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuels, Robert, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- English language.
- College teachers, Part-time--United States.
- College teachers, Part-time.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty.
- Universities and colleges.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).
- United States.
- Universities and colleges--Faculty.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Drawing from pivotal texts in the field of writing studies, The Politics of Writing Studies shows how the use and abuse of contingent faculty at institutions of higher education affect the efficacy and perceived status of composition programs at universities and colleges in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Contingent labor, writing studies, and writing about writing
- The politics of transfer : grades, meritocracy, and genre in Anne Beaufort's College writing and beyond : a new framework for university writing
- Metacognition and cynical conformity in writing across contexts
- Genre as social conformity : Charles Bazerman after postmodernity
- Writing theory, forgetting labor : Sid Dobrin and the posthuman subject
- Conclusion: Collective action to reinvent the university.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781607325833
- 1607325837
- OCLC:
- 957056950
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