Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change - Couverture rigide

Bloom, Lynn Z.; Daiker, Donald A.; White, Edward M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0809318784 ISBN 13 : 9780809318780

Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The essays in this book, stemming from a national conference of the same name, focus on the single subject required of nearly all college students?composition. Despite its pervasiveness and its significance, composition has an unstable status within the currium. Writing programs and writing faty are besieged by academic, political, and financial concerns that have not been well understood or addressed. At many institutions, composition functions paradoxically as both the gateway to academic success and as the gatekeeper, reducing access to academic work and opportunity for those with limited facility in English. Although writing programs are expected to provide services that range from instruction in correct grammar to assisting?or resisting?political correctness, expanding programs and shrinking faty get caught in the crossfire. The bottom line becomes the firing line as forces outside the classroom determine funding and seek to define what composition should do. In search of that definition, the contributors ask and answer a series of specific and salient questions: What implications?intellectual, political, and institutional?will forces outside the classroom have on the quality and delivery of composition in the twenty-first century? How will faty and administrators identify and address these issues? What policies and practices ought we propose for the century to come? This book features sixteen position papers by distinguished scholars and researchers in composition and rhetoric; most of the papers are followed by invited responses by other notable compositionists. In all, twenty-five contributors approach composition from a wide variety of contemporary perspectives: rhetorical, historical, social, tural, political, intellectual, economic, structural, administrative, and developmental. They propose solutions applicable to pedagogy, research, graduate training of composition teachers, academic administration, and public and social policy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southern Illinois University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809318784
• ISBN 13: 9780809318780
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible