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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For me , then , thinking psychoanalytically means getting restless with these
familiar scripts repeated in my writing , recognizing their limits , and learning to
revise . It means recognizing that my writing is very much rooted in a history -
including ...
For me , then , thinking psychoanalytically means getting restless with these
familiar scripts repeated in my writing , recognizing their limits , and learning to
revise . It means recognizing that my writing is very much rooted in a history -
including ...
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So what does this mean for Bonnie and me in the writing center ? Two things it
does not mean : It does not mean that I tell myself after that first meeting of
helping Bonnie get her paper into line , “ It's okay , it's okay , it's okay ” ; all
necessary ...
So what does this mean for Bonnie and me in the writing center ? Two things it
does not mean : It does not mean that I tell myself after that first meeting of
helping Bonnie get her paper into line , “ It's okay , it's okay , it's okay ” ; all
necessary ...
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298 ) For Kristeva exile doesn't mean retreat into a silent tower room or
banishment or alienation . She's not hearkening back to the days of the solitary
and misunderstood poet in the garret . Instead , some kind of exile means the
creation of a ...
298 ) For Kristeva exile doesn't mean retreat into a silent tower room or
banishment or alienation . She's not hearkening back to the days of the solitary
and misunderstood poet in the garret . Instead , some kind of exile means the
creation of a ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
Copyright | |
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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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