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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And yet , even while these essays and studies are very much about revision , the
actual word revision rarely , or never , appears . It doesn't appear as it did
throughout the 1970s and 1980s in the research of Nancy Sommers , Lester
Faigley ...
And yet , even while these essays and studies are very much about revision , the
actual word revision rarely , or never , appears . It doesn't appear as it did
throughout the 1970s and 1980s in the research of Nancy Sommers , Lester
Faigley ...
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action studies within academic institutions , I see strong and troubling
connections . Writing center teachers and directors , Cynthia HaynesBurton (
1994 ) notes , are often embroiled in “ rhetorics of advocacy , ” explaining ,
arguing for , and ...
action studies within academic institutions , I see strong and troubling
connections . Writing center teachers and directors , Cynthia HaynesBurton (
1994 ) notes , are often embroiled in “ rhetorics of advocacy , ” explaining ,
arguing for , and ...
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erary studies , institutional structures , the state legislature , taxpayers , or TV —
when I do this I've set myself up for telling only the happiest , dreamiest tales of
my own unblemished , unimpeachable work : mass education is the problem ...
erary studies , institutional structures , the state legislature , taxpayers , or TV —
when I do this I've set myself up for telling only the happiest , dreamiest tales of
my own unblemished , unimpeachable work : mass education is the problem ...
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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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