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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... tell me in the writing center , and that I tell when I look back on my memories of police reporting . But remembering something else - how , after most every shift I'd go home , sit on the couch , hug my knees , and tell myself , it's ...
... tell me in the writing center , and that I tell when I look back on my memories of police reporting . But remembering something else - how , after most every shift I'd go home , sit on the couch , hug my knees , and tell myself , it's ...
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... tell myself I should write about all these things so I shouldn't forget . . . or just to be able to tell them to my mother [ in Malaysia ] on the phone , so we can laugh together about them . For Jaswant , fiction writing is a way to ...
... tell myself I should write about all these things so I shouldn't forget . . . or just to be able to tell them to my mother [ in Malaysia ] on the phone , so we can laugh together about them . For Jaswant , fiction writing is a way to ...
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... tell stories " rather than " make arguments . " In a sense , I think that's true , though I would rephrase that observation like this : my aim is to tell stories to disrupt my arguments , to talk back to my beliefs , their possibilities ...
... tell stories " rather than " make arguments . " In a sense , I think that's true , though I would rephrase that observation like this : my aim is to tell stories to disrupt my arguments , to talk back to my beliefs , their possibilities ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
Copyright | |
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