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Author France, Alan W.

Title Composition as a cultural practice / Alan W. France
Published Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1994

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 MELB  808.042 F8152/C  AVAILABLE
Description xx, 171 pages ; 23 cm
Series Series in language and ideology., 1069-6806
Series in language and ideology.
Contents Foreword / Donaldo Macedo -- 1. Assigning Places: The Function of Introductory Composition as a Cultural Discourse -- 2. Toward a Materialist Rhetoric: Rewriting Hegemonic Discourses -- 3. Composing a Post-Sexist Rhetoric: Introductory Writing Instruction as a Cultural Production -- 4. Radical Pedagogy and Student Resistance: Can We Fight the Power? -- 5. Teaching the Dialectics of "Objective" Discourse: A Progressive Approach to Business and Professional Writing -- 6. Science and Self-Expression: The Cognitive Turn in Historical Retrospect -- 7. Pragmatism, Politics, and Social Epistemology in Composition Studies -- 8. Learning to Explain the "Inexplicable": Chronicle of an Introductory Academic Writing Course -- 9. Theology and Composition: Inscribing the Absent Other
Analysis English language Composition (Arts)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-167) and index
Subject English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Language and culture.
Report writing -- Study and teaching.
LC no. 93048970
ISBN 0897894030