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Author Bizzell, Patricia.

Title Academic discourse and critical consciousness / Patricia Bizzell
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description vi, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Series Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy and culture
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Contents The Ethos of Academic Discourse -- Thomas Kuhn, Scientism, and English Studies -- "Inherent" Ideology, "Universal" History, "Empirical" Evidence, and "Context-Free" Writing: Some Problems in E. D. Hirsch's The Philosophy of Composition / Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg -- Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know About Writing -- College Composition: Initiation Into the Academic Discourse Community -- Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness: An Application of Paulo Freire -- William Perry and Liberal Education -- What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College? -- Composing Processes: An Overview -- Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism in Composition Studies -- What Is a Discourse Community? -- Arguing About Literacy -- Beyond Anti-Foundationalism to Rhetorical Authority: Problems Defining "Cultural Literacy"
Analysis Critical thinking
Criticism Authorship
Education
English Rhetoric Study and teaching
English for academic purposes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also issued online
Subject Academic writing -- Study and teaching.
Critical thinking.
Criticism -- Authorship.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
LC no. 92011967
ISBN 0822937301
0822954850 (paperback)