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- Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition
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- 2001
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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James Slevin traces how composition emerged for him not as a vehicle for improving student writing, but rather as a way of working collaboratively with students to interpret educational practices and work for educational reform.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part One: Imagining the Work of Composition
- 1. Learning the Work of Composition
- pp. 18-36
- Part Two: Introducing English in America: Education as Conversion and Conservation in Colonial Settings
- 3. Figuring Pocahontas
- pp. 66-81
- 5. Educating the Other
- pp. 100-117
- Epilogue to Part Two
- pp. 118-120
- Part Three: The Contexts and Genres of the Intellectual Work of Composition
- 7. Genre as a Social Institution
- pp. 142-159
- Part Four: Composition’s Work with the Disciplines
- Part Five: Correspondences
- 13. A Letter to Maggie
- pp. 246-252
- References
- pp. 273-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822972266
Related ISBN(s)
9780822941514, 9780822957522
MARC Record
OCLC
604703776
Pages
301
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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