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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I worry that he won't find the time and desire for such writing , and I worry that he'll
be pulled increasingly across campus to Military Hall , toward Sergeant Blank ,
away from his impulses to reflect and question , away from the influence of the ...
I worry that he won't find the time and desire for such writing , and I worry that he'll
be pulled increasingly across campus to Military Hall , toward Sergeant Blank ,
away from his impulses to reflect and question , away from the influence of the ...
Page 155
But this real - tight bond , Copjec writes , is also the result of a misreading of
Lacan and , in particular , the familiar Lacanian aphorism , “ Desire is the desire
of the Other ” ( Copjec 1989 , p . 238 ) . In this misreading — one exemplified not
only ...
But this real - tight bond , Copjec writes , is also the result of a misreading of
Lacan and , in particular , the familiar Lacanian aphorism , “ Desire is the desire
of the Other ” ( Copjec 1989 , p . 238 ) . In this misreading — one exemplified not
only ...
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It's mediated by Dora's father's desire to help his daughter and also preserve the
family and social status quo ; it's mediated by Freud's desire to grasp the
complexities of Dora's situation and also reach a quick cure he can write up as
proof ; it's ...
It's mediated by Dora's father's desire to help his daughter and also preserve the
family and social status quo ; it's mediated by Freud's desire to grasp the
complexities of Dora's situation and also reach a quick cure he can write up as
proof ; it's ...
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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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