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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... side by side an early version of a chapter , its revision , a meditation about how I revised and why . She's right — it does seem to be a problem , the presentation of seemingly neat and complete chapters about revision all bound up in ...
... side by side an early version of a chapter , its revision , a meditation about how I revised and why . She's right — it does seem to be a problem , the presentation of seemingly neat and complete chapters about revision all bound up in ...
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... side by side , " Marines don't complain " and " Obligation to tell . ” Then I ask him if there's a way to write " within " these two impera- tives . He nods and writes : Here is what you should know about war : that no matter what ...
... side by side , " Marines don't complain " and " Obligation to tell . ” Then I ask him if there's a way to write " within " these two impera- tives . He nods and writes : Here is what you should know about war : that no matter what ...
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... side by side- one that she wrote as a sixteen - year - old , just before her moth- er's death , about the primary and positive role her mother played in her life ; the second , an essay she is composing now to her eleven - year - old ...
... side by side- one that she wrote as a sixteen - year - old , just before her moth- er's death , about the primary and positive role her mother played in her life ; the second , an essay she is composing now to her eleven - year - old ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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