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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... becomes wary of me or his text , or as I become wary of him and his writing . Even while our dialogues promise a means for un- derstanding , they can also expose our illusory sense of wholeness and lead us into death - work - the ...
... becomes wary of me or his text , or as I become wary of him and his writing . Even while our dialogues promise a means for un- derstanding , they can also expose our illusory sense of wholeness and lead us into death - work - the ...
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... become what we write . " We do , through writing , " become exposed to ourselves . . . " ( 1995 , p . 227 ) . More , my work with Lee tells me that we become , as we write and revise , exposed to competing ideas of ourselves and to ...
... become what we write . " We do , through writing , " become exposed to ourselves . . . " ( 1995 , p . 227 ) . More , my work with Lee tells me that we become , as we write and revise , exposed to competing ideas of ourselves and to ...
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... become a stranger to the idea of writing instruction that works to maintain composition's po- sition as a modernist discipline and extols the virtues of essays that quickly and neatly come to be focused , organized , and finished . Mar ...
... become a stranger to the idea of writing instruction that works to maintain composition's po- sition as a modernist discipline and extols the virtues of essays that quickly and neatly come to be focused , organized , and finished . Mar ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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