Rethinking basic writing : exploring identity, politics, and community in interaction / Laura Gray-Rosendale ; foreword by Keith Gilyard ; afterword by Victor Villanueva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray-Rosendale, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

English language--Grammar--Study and teaching.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we examine how they construct their own conceptions of their identities, their constructions of their relationships to social forces, and their representations of their relationships to written work. Using a cross-disciplinary analytic model, Gray-Rosendale offers a detailed examination of the oral conversations that take place within one basic writing peer revision group. She explains the ways in which the students' own conversational structures impa

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Questioning the Question, Who Is the Basic Writer?; 1 What Basic Writers Do: A New Analytic Model for Social Construction in Context; 2 Interactions in Action: Beyond Basic Writing; 3 Basic Writing's New Horizons: The Challenges We Face; Afterword; Bibliography; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-66418-8

9786612324741

1-4106-0316-4

1-282-32474-8

0-585-18985-4

9781410603166

OCLC:

437110913