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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... participants used the potential spaces they created to reexamine their literacy histories and beliefs , they also looked ahead to the coming year - a looking ahead that , as in Martha's poem , created both a sense of play and ...
... participants used the potential spaces they created to reexamine their literacy histories and beliefs , they also looked ahead to the coming year - a looking ahead that , as in Martha's poem , created both a sense of play and ...
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... participants fo- cused on one episode in their lives as readers and writers or re- created a range of episodes to help them consider their literate development , its relationship to their familial and cultural con- texts , and the place ...
... participants fo- cused on one episode in their lives as readers and writers or re- created a range of episodes to help them consider their literate development , its relationship to their familial and cultural con- texts , and the place ...
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... participants , and conducting interviews with three participants twice during the five weeks , as well as meeting with two the following year . The purpose for this research was twofold . First , since the literacy project was a new and ...
... participants , and conducting interviews with three participants twice during the five weeks , as well as meeting with two the following year . The purpose for this research was twofold . First , since the literacy project was a new and ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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