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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... 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 writing center
.
... 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 writing center
.
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But no social mirror - and this is what usual readings of Lacan leave out - can
ever reflect back to us , whole and complete , an image of ourselves and the true
nature of things . There is always something missing , something else , or , as ...
But no social mirror - and this is what usual readings of Lacan leave out - can
ever reflect back to us , whole and complete , an image of ourselves and the true
nature of things . There is always something missing , something else , or , as ...
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457 ) —to resist for a moment the work of subordination , coherence , and control
; to pause , reflect , and consider the complexities of their choices ; to realize that
there are choices . Instead of confusing or misleading students , this renaming ...
457 ) —to resist for a moment the work of subordination , coherence , and control
; to pause , reflect , and consider the complexities of their choices ; to realize that
there are choices . Instead of confusing or misleading students , this renaming ...
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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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