num_pages: 339
description: In this study, writing ordinarily considered trivial is used to show how the writers used it to reinforce or revise the roles imposed on them by gender and social conventions. It makes a case for the usefulness of commonplace writing, arguing that to ignore it distorts our view of the past.
language: English
title: Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing
titlecomplete: Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy & Culture)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr