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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... stop and examine this , " reminding me that each chapter I draft , each story I tell , should be a site for stopping , for examining . Pam Weiner , who always wanted to talk and who never said , " Nancy , you're making too much of this ...
... stop and examine this , " reminding me that each chapter I draft , each story I tell , should be a site for stopping , for examining . Pam Weiner , who always wanted to talk and who never said , " Nancy , you're making too much of this ...
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... stop , need to ask : What's creating this sense of gratification and familiarity ? Whose interests does it serve ? What's being suppressed in the process ? I want my students to ask such questions of their reading and writing , too ...
... stop , need to ask : What's creating this sense of gratification and familiarity ? Whose interests does it serve ? What's being suppressed in the process ? I want my students to ask such questions of their reading and writing , too ...
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... stop but he seemed to think when I said stop that I wanted more . . . I reported him a few days later but to no avail . His supervisor gave him employee of the month ... For the first page and a half of this writing , Margie refers to ...
... stop but he seemed to think when I said stop that I wanted more . . . I reported him a few days later but to no avail . His supervisor gave him employee of the month ... For the first page and a half of this writing , Margie refers to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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