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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... words like prewriting and planning . Any men- tion of such words , I'm guessing , might signal what Trimbur calls " an unwillingness to break " with 1970s process pedagogies ( p . 112 ) . Ironically , however , what seems to happen in ...
... words like prewriting and planning . Any men- tion of such words , I'm guessing , might signal what Trimbur calls " an unwillingness to break " with 1970s process pedagogies ( p . 112 ) . Ironically , however , what seems to happen in ...
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... words and her own flexible , malleable texts . Similarly , Daniel and Rick talk about the role of reading in the course as a third factor that led them to look again at the social mod- els with which they were trying to fit and to voice ...
... words and her own flexible , malleable texts . Similarly , Daniel and Rick talk about the role of reading in the course as a third factor that led them to look again at the social mod- els with which they were trying to fit and to voice ...
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... words within an environment of activity and support . Especially in my day - to - day work in the writing center I realize that students do not need me to introduce them to this idea of be- coming a stranger to their words and to a ...
... words within an environment of activity and support . Especially in my day - to - day work in the writing center I realize that students do not need me to introduce them to this idea of be- coming a stranger to their words and to a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Restless | 7 |
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction | 15 |
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