City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices [Paperback]

Bruce McComiskey (Editor), Cynthia Ryan (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0791455505 | ISBN-13: 978-0791455500 | Publication Date: January 9, 2003

Teaching writing in unique urban settings.

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From the Back Cover

This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Detroit. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan visit the fascinating history of various urban universities to illustrate how specific writing programs and instructors have engaged in the changing missions and priorities of their institutions. The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.

About the Author

At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bruce McComiskey is Associate Professor and Cynthia Ryan is Assistant Professor of English. McComiskey is the author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (January 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791455505
• ISBN-13: 978-0791455500
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,657,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)