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Main Author: Scott, Tony 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah Utah State University Press 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199)
Introduction: embodying the social in writing education -- Professionals and bureaucrats -- Writing the program: the genre function of the writing textbook -- How "social" is social class identification? -- Students working -- Writing dangerously
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 & rsquo; 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 & ldquo;fast-capitalism. & rdquo; Since the 1980s and the & ldquo;social turn & rdquo; in composition studies and other
Physical Description:202 pages
ISBN:9780874217353
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