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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811036003321

Autore

Hill Carolyn Ericksen

Titolo

Writing from the margins : power and pedagogy for teachers of composition / / Carolyn Ericksen Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990

ISBN

0-19-772697-6

0-19-802274-3

1-280-52533-9

1-4237-3705-9

1-60129-791-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

418.0071

808.04207

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

English language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p261-275. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Students: At the Edges Looking In; 3. Teachers: Author(iz)ing Hard and Soft Stories about Academia; 4. Four Midwives; 5. Peripheral Visions from Rhetoric's Past; 6. Writers' Minds: Which System?; 7. Time Passed from Reading to Writing to Reading; 8. Grammar, Style, and Politics; 9. Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Too often both composition teachers and their students experience knowledge and authority as unchanging entities that cannot be challenged in classroom exchanges. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and poststructuralist theory, as well as work in the rhetorical tradition and composition studies, Hill offers less debilitating methods of thinking that teachers can model for their students. Richly illustrated with examples of classroom interactions and student work, the book also shows teachers how to enrich their own intellectual and political lives within the academy.