Reforming College Composition: Writing the Wrongs

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• Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Education ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction xi
• I WRITING THE WRONGS: VOICES OF CONCERN 1
• 1: First the Bad News, Then the Good News: Where Writing Research Has Taken Vs and Where We Need to Take It Now 3
• 2 - Composition at the End of Everything; or, The Bravery of Being Out of Range: What's Wrong with a Postmodern Composition Theory? 13
• WORKS CITED 23
• 3: Expressivisms as "Vernacular Theories" of Composing: Recovering the Pragmatic Roots of Writing Instruction 25
• NOTES 34
• WORKS CITED 34
• 4: The Post-Process Movement in Composition Studies 37
• APPENDIX A WORK CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENTS 48
• APPENDIX A WORK CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENTS 50
• APPENDIX A WORK CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENTS 52
• 5: Finding "The Writer's Way": What We Expected and How We've Erred 55

• Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Education ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction xi
• I WRITING THE WRONGS: VOICES OF CONCERN 1
• 1: First the Bad News, Then the Good News: Where Writing Research Has Taken Vs and Where We Need to Take It Now 3
• 2 - Composition at the End of Everything; or, The Bravery of Being Out of Range: What's Wrong with a Postmodern Composition Theory? 13
• WORKS CITED 23
• 3: Expressivisms as "Vernacular Theories" of Composing: Recovering the Pragmatic Roots of Writing Instruction 25
• NOTES 34
• WORKS CITED 34
• 4: The Post-Process Movement in Composition Studies 37
• APPENDIX A WORK CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENTS 48
• APPENDIX A WORK CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENTS 50
• APPENDIX A WORK CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENTS 52
• 5: Finding "The Writer's Way": What We Expected and How We've Erred 55
• WORKS CITED 64
• 6: The Writing Center and the Politics of Separation: The Writing Process Movement's Dubious Legacy 65
• II RIGHTING THE WRONGS: VOICES FROM THE TRENCHES 77
• 7: Readerless Writers: College Composition's Misreading and Misteaching of Entering Students 79
• 8: Peer Review and Response: A Failure of the Process Paradigm as Viewed From the Trenches 99
• WORKS CITED 110
• 9: The Service Myth: Why Freshman Composition Doesn'T Serve "Us" or "Them" 113
• WORKS CITED 121
• 10: Preparing Composition Students for Writing in Their Careers 123
• WORKS CITED 134
• 11: Coming to Terms with the Freshman Term Paper 137
• 12: The Bytes Are On, But Nobody's Home: Composition's Wrong Turns into the Computer Age 149
• 13 - Technology, Distance, and Collaboration: Where are These Pedagogies Taking Composition? 176
• 14: Linguistics and Composition Sara Kimball 179
• NOTES 188
• III WRITING AND RIGHTING THE FUTURE: PREPARING NEW VOICES 191
• 15: Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip: Teaching and Learning with Graduate Instrutors 193
• 16: Obscured Agendas and Hidden Failures: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Education, and First-Year Writing Courses 203
• 17: The Preparation of Graduate Writing Teachers: Creating Substance Out of Shadows 213
• 18: Cognition and Culture 232
• 19: Breaking the Learning Monopoly: Acknowledging and Accommodating Students' Diverse Learning Styles 233
• WORKS CITED 251
• Index 261
• About the Contributors 265