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The Politics of Writing Studies Reinventing Our Universities from Below
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The Politics of Writing Studies [electronic resource] : Reinventing Our Universities from Below / Robert Samuels.
ISBN
9781607325840
9781607325833 (pbk.)
Published
Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"Drawing from pivotal texts in the field of writing studies, The Politics of Writing Studies shows how the use and abuse of contingent faculty at institutions of higher education affect the efficacy and perceived status of composition programs at universities and colleges in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 Higher Education.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Contingent labor, writing studies, and writing about writing
The politics of transfer : grades, meritocracy, and genre in Anne Beaufort's College writing and beyond : a new framework for university writing
Metacognition and cynical conformity in writing across contexts
Genre as social conformity : Charles Bazerman after postmodernity
Writing theory, forgetting labor : Sid Dobrin and the posthuman subject
Conclusion : collective action to reinvent the university.
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