The Lure of Literacy: A Critical Reception of the Compulsory Composition Debate - Couverture rigide

Harker, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1438454953 ISBN 13 : 9781438454955

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2015

Synopsis

Examines proposals for freshman composition's abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.

"...readers of LiCS will find a strong argument for how understandings of literacy are fundamental to the work that compositionists do, making this book useful not only to those doing similar work but also to be shared with colleagues who have less familiarity with literacy studies. The Lure of Literacy presents a model of how theories of literacy can be applied to the debates that beset compositionists again and again, offering a way out of their unproductive cycles." - Literacy in Composition

The Lure of Literacy promises to transcend the stale and unproductive debate on freshman composition that has gripped English studies for more than a century. It is the first book to chart the origin of the discussion from the early twentieth century to the advent of the New Literacy Studies. Michael Harker recontextualizes proposals to abolish compulsory composition and reimagines pedagogical conditions in English studies in order to present a different model for first-year writing. This new model for compulsory composition programs focuses on students' attitudes about composition and interrogates the very idea of literacy itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Harker is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438454953
• ISBN 13: 9781438454955
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible