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Composition and Resistance [Paperback]

Claude Mark Hurlbert (Editor), Michael Blitz (Editor)
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0867092815 978-0867092813 October 7, 1991

This book is meant for anybody in the composition business-teachers of composition theory and writing intensive courses in both college and high school, teacher educators, teachers of rhetoric, and graduate students. Composition and Resistance is a moving orchestration of our profession's deepest concerns about the economic, social, political, and practical aspects of teaching writing-matters that touch us all, both day-to-day and over professional lifetimes.

This is an action-oriented text, emphatic in its condemnation of unexamined persuasions, injudicious policies, uninformed practices, and stodginess; and liberatory in its arguments for change.


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Claude Mark Hurlbert is a professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Boynton/Cook (October 7, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0867092815
  • ISBN-13: 978-0867092813
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Why isn't every teacher of composition, interdisciplinary writing, cultural studies (etc.) reading this book? And why is it so hard to get hold of? Hurlbert and Blitz provide a collection of essays by composition scholars AND newcomers to the field that demonstrate how bloody hard it is to teach writing and to make sense of a drive for literacy in a society that doesn't seem to value writing. Hurlbert and Blitz also supply transcripts of conversations among these writers-- the real stuff, not phony-baloney oratories about how perfectly they teach their little classes! I have been to those conferences and discussion groups and am bored stupid by the way that composition teachers like to pretend that they have found "THE WAY" to do it! Composition and Resistance tells a different story. It tells us that teaching writing is a struggle, that it doesn't always work, that, at best, it's a process of recognizing and overcoming "resistances" from students and teachers alike. A very good and important book that should be required reading in graduate programs in rhetoric and composition!
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