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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... Focus ! Focus ! Fo- cus ! " That's what another teacher wrote at the end of a student's paper about Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony - even though , at the same time , he'd been talking in class about ways of reading this book that ...
... Focus ! Focus ! Fo- cus ! " That's what another teacher wrote at the end of a student's paper about Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony - even though , at the same time , he'd been talking in class about ways of reading this book that ...
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... focus and craft- ing well - focused leads all at the same time . What I want to urge in this chapter , though , is that this liminal space can become one of productive activity as we learn to work di- alectically between the making and ...
... focus and craft- ing well - focused leads all at the same time . What I want to urge in this chapter , though , is that this liminal space can become one of productive activity as we learn to work di- alectically between the making and ...
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... focus , " Gillam writes , " perhaps Mary needs to flesh out the con- tradictions embedded in the text and puzzle over the off - key shifts in voice as a way of discovering focus . . . ” ( p . 7 ) . For me , Gillam's essay is very much ...
... focus , " Gillam writes , " perhaps Mary needs to flesh out the con- tradictions embedded in the text and puzzle over the off - key shifts in voice as a way of discovering focus . . . ” ( p . 7 ) . For me , Gillam's essay is very much ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
Copyright | |
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