Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing InstructionIn Getting Restless, Nancy Welch asks compositionists to rethink what they mean by "revision," urging them to examine long-held beliefs about teacher-student relations and writing practices. Drawing primarily on feminist and psychoanalytic theories, she considers how revision can be redefined as a process of disorientation: an act of restlessness with received meanings, familiar relationships, and disciplinary or generic boundaries, a practice of intervening in the meanings and identifications of one's text and one's life. |
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... forms for women and for other social minorities , as when female doctoral students in her own insti- tution are defined as careful , caring readers of others ' texts and so are encouraged toward commentary rather than toward seeing them ...
... forms for women and for other social minorities , as when female doctoral students in her own insti- tution are defined as careful , caring readers of others ' texts and so are encouraged toward commentary rather than toward seeing them ...
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... forms of resistance aside , however , we cannot fundamentally change these institutional mirrors and we cannot fundamentally revise the forms , voices , and subjects of the texts we write - not according to this story of the formation ...
... forms of resistance aside , however , we cannot fundamentally change these institutional mirrors and we cannot fundamentally revise the forms , voices , and subjects of the texts we write - not according to this story of the formation ...
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... forms of research are an " anti - intellectual gesture " ( p . 148 ) . Like Freud in his construction of antagonistic colleagues in science and philosophy who will smirk at and dismiss the idea of reading dreams , Helmers concludes that ...
... forms of research are an " anti - intellectual gesture " ( p . 148 ) . Like Freud in his construction of antagonistic colleagues in science and philosophy who will smirk at and dismiss the idea of reading dreams , Helmers concludes that ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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