Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research, and Practice

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Christine Farris, Chris M. Anson
Utah State University Press, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 332 pages
Introduction: Complicating composition /Christine Farris and Chris M. Anson --pt. 1.The research/theory/practice relationship.1.Theory, research, practice, work /Christopher Ferry --2.Composing composition studies: scholarly publication and the practice of discipline /Peter Vandenberg --3.Toward a theory of theory for composition studies /James Zebroski --pt. 2.Critiquing theories in practice.4.The dialogic function of composition pedagogy: negotiating between critical theory and public values /Rebecca Moore Howard --5.Keeping honest: working class students, difference, and rethinking the critical agenda in composition /David Seitz --6.Rethinking the personal narrative: life-writing and composition pedagogy /Deborah Mutnick --7.What difference the differences make: theoretical and epistemological differences in writing assessment practice /Brian Huot and Michael Williamson --pt. 3.Refiguring and relocating research.8.Voices of research: methodological choices of a disciplinary community /Susan Peck MacDonald --9.Grounded theory: a critical research methodology /Joyce Magnotto Neff --10.Feminist methodology: dilemmas for graduate researchers /Shirley Rose and Janice Lauer --11.Insider/outsider/other?: confronting the centeredness of race, class, color and ethnicity in composition research /Yuet-Sim Chiang --12.Re-centering authority: social reflexivity and re-positioning in composition research /Ellen Cushman and Terese Guinsatao Monberg --13.Tracking composition research on the World Wide Web /Susan Romano --14.Farther afield: rethinking the contributions of research /Ruth Ray and Ellen Barton --pt. 4.Remaking knowledge and rewriting practice.15.A rhetoric of teacher-talk or how to make more out of lore /Wendy Bishop --16.Theory, practice, and the bridge between: the methods course and reflective rhetoric /Kathleen Blake Yancey --17.Rewriting praxis (and redefining texts) in composition research /Nancy Maloney Grimm, Anne Frances Wysocki and Marilyn M. Cooper --18.Coming (in)to consciousness: one Asian American teacher's journey into activist teaching and research /Gail Okawa.

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Complicating Composition
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ONE Theory Research Practice Work
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THREE Toward a Theory of Theory for
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