商品簡介
Rich and Lay (writing studies and composition, Hofstra U.) compile 14 essays aimed at composition theorists, teachers, and administrators on the past and present status of writing studies and their role in safeguarding and advocating for the field. Writing scholars from the US who participated in the "Who Owns Writing, Revisted" conference held at Hofstra U. examine the institutional complexities of stewardship in writing studies, including difficulties in implementing an ethic of stewardship within institutional and departmental contexts that are hostile to such practices, and the changing nature of pedagogy in the context of divergent institutional needs, such as writing in the disciplines programs and funding for general education goals. They also consider the ways in which the discipline conceptualizes its identity and roles in the classroom and institution, such as working together with feminist pedagogy or when students attempt to sound academic, with a final section on teaching innovations, such as the social constructivist perspective, specific contextual and social frameworks, and student ownership in writing. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jennifer Rich is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Composition at Hofstra University. She has published widely in rhetoric, film theory, and Shakespearean studies. Her most recent work, ?Blindness and Insight: Disrupting the Authorial Ethos in Virginia Woolf ’s Three Guineas,? appeared in Rhetoric Review. Her article, ?Shock Corridors: The New Rhetoric of Horror in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant? will be forthcoming in the Journal of Popular Culture. She is currently working on a book-length consideration of the rhetoric of memorials.
Ethna D. Lay is Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Composition at Hofstra University. Her current book project, Sequels of Literacy: When the Essay Is the Gloss, is a study of the new literacy and new media practices of contemporary American students.
