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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Commonplace for a short story ending , but also true to what it was like for me
when I returned to the newsroom that night and for the next six months , trying
hard to get reoriented , trying to forget that story , not yet realizing that I'd already
...
Commonplace for a short story ending , but also true to what it was like for me
when I returned to the newsroom that night and for the next six months , trying
hard to get reoriented , trying to forget that story , not yet realizing that I'd already
...
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I was trying out automatic writing , " he explains , “ like Bukowski , Kerouac , and
some other poets I've been into lately . ” In an interview with me at the semester's
end about his experiences in the course , Daniel says he was ten to fifteen ...
I was trying out automatic writing , " he explains , “ like Bukowski , Kerouac , and
some other poets I've been into lately . ” In an interview with me at the semester's
end about his experiences in the course , Daniel says he was ten to fifteen ...
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Looking back , I see that as a class we were beginning to remodel - trying to
identify and fit in with a particular stance toward reading in this course , getting
restless as our various conceptions and experiences didn't all neatly cohere into
a ...
Looking back , I see that as a class we were beginning to remodel - trying to
identify and fit in with a particular stance toward reading in this course , getting
restless as our various conceptions and experiences didn't all neatly cohere into
a ...
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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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