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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... narrative for un- derstanding how identity , authority , sense of voice , and sense of project can be formed . She can help us understand the centrality of revision to this narrative — revision not as that stage that comes af- ter ...
... narrative for un- derstanding how identity , authority , sense of voice , and sense of project can be formed . She can help us understand the centrality of revision to this narrative — revision not as that stage that comes af- ter ...
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... narrative of being subsumed and written by the assumptions and rituals of a single community - through deployment and deflection , subordination and control - but we cannot fundamentally alter it . * * * In " Fighting Words : Unlearning ...
... narrative of being subsumed and written by the assumptions and rituals of a single community - through deployment and deflection , subordination and control - but we cannot fundamentally alter it . * * * In " Fighting Words : Unlearning ...
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... narrative and per- sonal - voice forms of research are an " anti - intellectual gesture " ( p . 148 ) . Like Freud in his construction of antagonistic colleagues in science and philosophy who will smirk at and dismiss the idea of ...
... narrative and per- sonal - voice forms of research are an " anti - intellectual gesture " ( p . 148 ) . Like Freud in his construction of antagonistic colleagues in science and philosophy who will smirk at and dismiss the idea of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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