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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454895903321

Autore

Gray-Rosendale Laura

Titolo

Rethinking basic writing [[electronic resource] ] : exploring identity, politics, and community in interaction / / Laura Gray-Rosendale ; foreword by Keith Gilyard ; afterword by Victor Villanueva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000

ISBN

1-135-66418-8

9786612324741

1-4106-0316-4

1-282-32474-8

0-585-18985-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/0711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

English language - Grammar - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

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. 176-184) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Questioning the Question, Who Is the Basic Writer?; 1 What Basic Writers Do: A New Analytic Model for Social Construction in Context; 2 Interactions in Action: Beyond Basic Writing; 3 Basic Writing's New Horizons: The Challenges We Face; Afterword; Bibliography; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we examine how they construct their own conceptions of their identities, their constructions of their relationships to social forces, and their representations of their relationships to written work. Using a cross-disciplinary analytic model, Gray-Rosendale offers a detailed examination of the oral conversations that take place within one basic writing peer revision group. She explains the ways in which the students' own conversational structures impa