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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213825103321

Autore

Scott Tony <1968->

Titolo

Dangerous Writing : Understanding the Political Economy of Composition / / Tony Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-87421-735-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Disciplina

808/.0420711073

808.042071173

Soggetti

College students - United States - Social conditions

College students - United States - Economic conditions

Academic writing - Study and teaching - Social aspects - United States

Academic writing - Study and teaching - Political aspects - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher) - Social aspects - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher) - Political aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Embodying the Social in Writing Education; 1 Professionals and Bureaucrats; 2 Writing the Program: The Genre Function of the Writing Textbook; 3 How "Social" Is Social Class Identification?; 4 Students Working; 5 Writing Dangerously; Appendix A: Initial Questions; Appendix B: Code List; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Building on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach, Dangerous Writing outlines a political economic theory of composition. The book connects pedagogical practices in writing classes to their broader political economic contexts, and argues that the analytical power of students' writing is prevented from reaching its potential by pressures within the academy and



without, that tend to wed higher education with the aims and logics of "fast-capitalism." Since the 1980's and the "social turn" in composition studies and other disciplines....