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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Her analysis , however , suggests that teachers also need to consider their
participation in what we might call the “ Abelard position , ” the teacher likewise
cast in a troubling role of dependency within the academic enterprise . While
Brooke ...
Her analysis , however , suggests that teachers also need to consider their
participation in what we might call the “ Abelard position , ” the teacher likewise
cast in a troubling role of dependency within the academic enterprise . While
Brooke ...
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Like Martha , Jeri expressed frustration about her failed attempts to put some of
her beliefs to work in her school and to foster community and collaboration
among its teachers — trying to create , for example , teacher - teams that would
meet on ...
Like Martha , Jeri expressed frustration about her failed attempts to put some of
her beliefs to work in her school and to foster community and collaboration
among its teachers — trying to create , for example , teacher - teams that would
meet on ...
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Two teachers discussed bringing into their teachers ' lounges some form of “
book talks " to change the nature of ... Others formed the goal of proposing to their
school administrators teacher - planned and teacher - guided inservice
workshops ...
Two teachers discussed bringing into their teachers ' lounges some form of “
book talks " to change the nature of ... Others formed the goal of proposing to their
school administrators teacher - planned and teacher - guided inservice
workshops ...
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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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