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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Ignoring Sydney's question completely , I write back : “ Can you tell me more
about ... ? ” and “ I'm interested in your idea that ... " By the fifth week of the
semester , though , a new pattern emerges in Sydney's writing and at times her
journals ...
Ignoring Sydney's question completely , I write back : “ Can you tell me more
about ... ? ” and “ I'm interested in your idea that ... " By the fifth week of the
semester , though , a new pattern emerges in Sydney's writing and at times her
journals ...
Page 103
More troubling to Jaswant , her writing center teacher would respond to her drafts
" like a tourist ” : “ She'd go on and on about the mango trees and miss completely
the mother . ” When Jaswant returns to the writing center a second semester ...
More troubling to Jaswant , her writing center teacher would respond to her drafts
" like a tourist ” : “ She'd go on and on about the mango trees and miss completely
the mother . ” When Jaswant returns to the writing center a second semester ...
Page 128
They recognized that their activities and discussions were not finished ; through
the literacy project their beliefs and lives were not neatly and completely
transformed . As Jeri noted , “ I can't say this experience is over and done with ,
my paper ...
They recognized that their activities and discussions were not finished ; through
the literacy project their beliefs and lives were not neatly and completely
transformed . As Jeri noted , “ I can't say this experience is over and done with ,
my paper ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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| Title | Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction Cross currents CrossCurrents (Portsmouth, N.H.) Crosscurrents : New Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition Woman in History Series |
| Author | Nancy Welch |
| Publisher | Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0867094001, 9780867094008 |
| Length | 198 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing |
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