04323nam 2200601 450 991081722340332120230808202150.00-8093-3451-8(CKB)3780000000096306(EBL)4443007(SSID)ssj0001614018(PQKBManifestationID)16340906(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001614018(PQKBWorkID)12476785(PQKB)11439895(MiAaPQ)EBC4443007(MdBmJHUP)muse46111(OCoLC)939553643(Au-PeEL)EBL4443007(CaPaEBR)ebr11201768(CaONFJC)MIL898315(EXLCZ)99378000000009630620160423h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRewriting composition terms of exchange /Bruce HornerCarbondale, [Illinois] :Southern Illinois University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8093-3450-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Composition; 2. Language; 3. Labor; 4. Value/Evaluation; 5. Discipline; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover"Bruce Horner's Rewriting Composition: Terms of Exchange shows how dominant inflections of key terms in composition--language, labor, value/evaluation, discipline, and composition itself--reinforce composition's low institutional status and the poor working conditions of many of its instructors and tutors. Placing the circulation of these terms in multiple contemporary contexts, including globalization, world Englishes, the diminishing role of labor and the professions, the "information" economy, and the privatization of higher education, Horner demonstrates ways to challenge debilitating definitions of these terms and to rework them and their relations to one another. Each chapter of Rewriting Composition focuses on one key term, discussing how limitations set by dominant definitions shape and direct what compositionists do and how they think about their work. The first chapter, "Composition," critiques a discourse of composition as lacking and therefore as in need of being either put to an end, renamed, aligned with other fields, or supplemented with work in other disciplines or other forms of composition. Rather than seeing composition as something to be abandoned, replaced, or supplemented, Horner suggests ways of productive engagement with the ordinary work of composition whose ostensible lack dominant discourse assumes. Other chapters apply this reconsideration to other key terms, critiquing dominant conceptions of "language" and English as stable; examining how "labor" in composition is divorced from the productive force of social relations to which language work contributes; rethinking the terms of value by which the labor of composition teachers, administrators, and students is measured; and questioning the application of conventional definitions of professional academic disciplinarity to composition. By exposing limitations in dominant conceptions of the work of composition and by modeling and opening up space for new conceptions of key terms, Rewriting Composition offers teachers of composition and rhetoric, writing scholars, and writing program administrators the critical tools necessary for charting the future of composition studies. "--Provided by publisher.English languageRhetoricStudy and teachingEnglish languageComposition and exercisesStudy and teachingReport writingStudy and teachingEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teaching.English languageComposition and exercisesStudy and teaching.Report writingStudy and teaching.808.0420711LAN005000bisacshHorner Bruce1957-1620181MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817223403321Rewriting composition3981881UNINA