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Teaching Composition As A Social Process

By Bruce Mccomiskey

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0874212839, 9780874212839, 9780585269252
LCC
PE1404 .M387 2000
Open Library ID
OL30401M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
646 kB (661076 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
180\160
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Bruce McComiskey is a strong advocate of social approaches to teaching writing. However, he opposes composition teaching that relies on cultural theory for content, because it too often prejudges the ethical character of institutions and reverts unnecessarily to product-centered practices in the classroom. He opposes what he calls the "read-this-essay-and-do-what-the-author-did method of writing instruction: read Roland Barthes's essay 'Toys' and write a similar essay; read John Fiske's essay on TV and critique a show." McComiskey argues for teaching writing as situated in discourse itself, in the constant flow of texts produced within social relationships and institutions. He urges writing teachers not to neglect the linguistic and rhetorical levels of composing, but rather to strengthen them with attention to the social contexts and ideological investments that pervade both the processes and products of writing. A work with a sophisticated theory base, and full of examples from McComiskey's own classrooms, Teaching Composition as a Social Process will be valued by experienced and beginning composition teachers alike.

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