In this Book
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 as situated in discourse itself, in the constant flow of texts produced within social relationships and institutions. He urges writing teachers not to neglect the linguistic and rhetorical levels of composing, but rather to strengthen them with attention to the social contexts and ideological investments that pervade both the processes and products of writing.
A work with a sophisticated theory base, and full of examples from McComiskey's own classrooms, Teaching Composition as a Social Process will be valued by experienced and beginning composition teachers alike.
Table of Contents
Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Three Levels of Composing
2. Social-Process Rhetorical Inquiry
Appendix A: Advertising Critical and Practical Essays: Assignments
Appendix B: The Cycle of Cultural Production, Contextual Distribution, and Critical Consumption: A Cultural Studies Heuristic for Rhetorical Inquiry into Advertising
3. The Post-Process Movement in Composition Studies
Appendix A: Work Critical and Practical Essays: Assignments
Appendix B: Work Critical and Practical Essays: Invention Heuristic
4. Composing Postmodern Subjectivities in the Aporia between Identity and Difference
5. Critical Discourse Analysis in the Composition Class
6. Writing in Context
Appendix A: School Critical and Practical Essays: Invention
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
| ISBN | 9780874213522 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780874212839 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 45732533 |
| Pages | 159 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
Copyright
2000
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