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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In this sense , exile , or what Kristeva also calls the role of the “ stranger , ” is not
at all an escape . It's a means for one to write and act in the world rather than be
written and acted upon . It's an understanding of writing as activism . Here and ...
In this sense , exile , or what Kristeva also calls the role of the “ stranger , ” is not
at all an escape . It's a means for one to write and act in the world rather than be
written and acted upon . It's an understanding of writing as activism . Here and ...
Page 86
This role isn't an easy one for me to stay in , though , because at the start of each
meeting , Margie updates me on the many requests and demands for her to
speak and write . She tells me about appointments at the EEOC and her
testimony to ...
This role isn't an easy one for me to stay in , though , because at the start of each
meeting , Margie updates me on the many requests and demands for her to
speak and write . She tells me about appointments at the EEOC and her
testimony to ...
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In this statement especially I hear Jaswant figuring a different role for herself than
that of choosing between the fiction workshop or Yunghi . In this role she can
pose questions ( “ Why are there three generations of women in this story ?
In this statement especially I hear Jaswant figuring a different role for herself than
that of choosing between the fiction workshop or Yunghi . In this role she can
pose questions ( “ Why are there three generations of women in this story ?
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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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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