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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... exile . This idea of critical exile derives from Kristeva's ( 1986a ) asser- tion that writing arises as much from a sense of exile as from a sense of participating in social conversation . In " A New Type of Intellec- tual : The ...
... exile . This idea of critical exile derives from Kristeva's ( 1986a ) asser- tion that writing arises as much from a sense of exile as from a sense of participating in social conversation . In " A New Type of Intellec- tual : The ...
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... exile . ( p . 298 ) For Kristeva exile doesn't mean retreat into a silent tower room or banishment or alienation . She's not hearkening back to the days of the solitary and misunderstood poet in the garret . Instead , some kind of exile ...
... exile . ( p . 298 ) For Kristeva exile doesn't mean retreat into a silent tower room or banishment or alienation . She's not hearkening back to the days of the solitary and misunderstood poet in the garret . Instead , some kind of exile ...
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... exile enables a student to become a stranger to her words within an environment of activity and support . Especially ... exile that fosters revision for students and teach- ers alike . Not a space of alienation or escape ( as in the ...
... exile enables a student to become a stranger to her words within an environment of activity and support . Especially ... exile that fosters revision for students and teach- ers alike . Not a space of alienation or escape ( as in the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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