Basic writing as a political act
Subtitle: public conversations about writing and literacies
By: Linda Adler-Kassner, Susanmarie Harrington.
Contributors: Harrington, Susanmarie.
Series: Research and teaching in rhetoric and composition
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cresskill, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Basic writing (Remedial education)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-111) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing 1; title: Basic Writing and the Problem of Autonomous Literacy 5; title: 2 An Inward Glance: Basic Writing and Basic Writers in Basic Writing Research 13; title: Who Are Basic Writing Students? 15; title: Curricular Strategies: Helping Basic Writers 20; title: Pedagogical Alternatives: Basic Writing and Basic Writers in Context 24; title: 3 "I Can Just Give You Five" Student Talk About Writing in School 33; title: Writing, Writers, and Transmission 34; title: School-Based Writing and Correctness 35; title: Writing Wrong 39; title: "Successful" Student Writing and Schooling 41; title: Enacting/Acting With: Beginning to Make Basic Writing a Political Act 42; title: 4 Student Talk About Literacy Out of School 47; title: Students, Families, and Literacy 49; title: Beyond Family: Literacy Bonds 54; title: Real-Life Writing: Literacy in School and Beyond 56; title: Looking Outward: Basic Writing and Basic Writers in the Mainstream Media 61; title: The School-Success Narrative: Students in Middle-Class Culture 62; title: CUNY and the Failure of the School-Success Narrative: 'An Institution Adrift" 64; title: Powerless Students 69; title: General College: The Triumph of the School-Success Narrative 73; title: Basic Writing Coverage: Who Speaks, What is Said 78; title: 6 Continuing the Conversation: Basic Writing Now and Beyond 83; title: Basic Writing Defined? 87; title: The Complications of Framing Basic Writing 89; title: Bureaucracy as Enabler and Constrainer 92; title: When is Basic Writing First-Year Composition Instead? 95; title: Making Basic Writing a Political Act: Curricular Change and the Basic Writing Classroom 96.