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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... complete renovation of words like reason and authority - from something totalizing and absolute to provisional , plural , and revisionary practices that explore the tension among " what it is legitimate to say , what one would like to ...
... complete renovation of words like reason and authority - from something totalizing and absolute to provisional , plural , and revisionary practices that explore the tension among " what it is legitimate to say , what one would like to ...
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... complete , contained , and disciplined body , the complete , con- tained , and disciplined text ; one that takes the double perspective that revision involves both movement toward social goals and ques- tioning what's being perpetuated ...
... complete , contained , and disciplined body , the complete , con- tained , and disciplined text ; one that takes the double perspective that revision involves both movement toward social goals and ques- tioning what's being perpetuated ...
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... complete being . There is no " Other " that can complete us , no matter what advertisements , text- books , how - to guides , and academic programs may promise . She suggests to me that a classroom that seeks to understand this and at ...
... complete being . There is no " Other " that can complete us , no matter what advertisements , text- books , how - to guides , and academic programs may promise . She suggests to me that a classroom that seeks to understand this and at ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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