The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary - Softcover

Schuster, Charles I; Trimbur, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867092726 ISBN 13: 9780867092721

Publisher: Heinemann, 1991

Synopsis

Noted composition scholars such as James Berlin, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Robert Connors, Anne Ruggles Gere, Susan Miller, and James Slevin discuss the realities of composition as a discipline in the eighteen essays presented in The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. They survey the history of composition teaching and scholarship; the implications of feminist theory on writing programs and practices; hiring and firing in English departments; the politics of research in composition and writing program design; writing across the curriculum, writing assessment, and basic writing; and the cultural attitudes and imperatives that define and circumscribe literacy education and the teaching of writing.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles I. Schuster is Director of the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Past-President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and former Director of the NCTE Commission on Composition, he has written extensively on Mikhail Bakhtin, the teaching of writing, and contemporary essayists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0867092726
• ISBN 13: 9780867092721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 311
• Editor: Bullock Richard H