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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... possibility , of revising not just to fit in but to wonder about what this fitting in will mean and whether there are other stories that might be written too . At issue for me as I work with a student like Bonnie is how to acknowledge ...
... possibility , of revising not just to fit in but to wonder about what this fitting in will mean and whether there are other stories that might be written too . At issue for me as I work with a student like Bonnie is how to acknowledge ...
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... possibility rather than an increasing sense of limits . Comparing her latest work to her earlier revisions that " didn't go anywhere , didn't move , " Jaswant also defines revision as " being brave enough to say , ' What would happen if ...
... possibility rather than an increasing sense of limits . Comparing her latest work to her earlier revisions that " didn't go anywhere , didn't move , " Jaswant also defines revision as " being brave enough to say , ' What would happen if ...
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... possibility of another position : that of the " Prodigal Daughter " ( pp . 57-59 ) . The prodigal daughter “ is a daughter still " who " acknowledges her heritage , " but who also " goes beyond the fold of restrictive paternal law ” and ...
... possibility of another position : that of the " Prodigal Daughter " ( pp . 57-59 ) . The prodigal daughter “ is a daughter still " who " acknowledges her heritage , " but who also " goes beyond the fold of restrictive paternal law ” and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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