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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... night's murders , rapes , and con- venience store holdups into their respective eight - column inches . I worked diligently to show that I could write up any story with qui- et , unflinching grace . Years later I would read Mikhail ...
... night's murders , rapes , and con- venience store holdups into their respective eight - column inches . I worked diligently to show that I could write up any story with qui- et , unflinching grace . Years later I would read Mikhail ...
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... night's work as a re- porter . The headlines were the usual : apartheid , famine , mass slaughter in a somewhere - else McDonalds , a fourteen - year - old boy convicted of killing a friend because , witnesses said , he wanted to know ...
... night's work as a re- porter . The headlines were the usual : apartheid , famine , mass slaughter in a somewhere - else McDonalds , a fourteen - year - old boy convicted of killing a friend because , witnesses said , he wanted to know ...
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... night in the newsroom , shaking up my guarantees of " You're just doing your job ” and “ These stories have nothing to do with you . " O'Connor's story ends in what may seem like a commonplace way , the narrator saying , “ And anything ...
... night in the newsroom , shaking up my guarantees of " You're just doing your job ” and “ These stories have nothing to do with you . " O'Connor's story ends in what may seem like a commonplace way , the narrator saying , “ And anything ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
Copyright | |
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