Dangerous writing : understanding the political economy of composition / Tony Scott.
Building on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach, Dangerous Writing outlines a political economic theory of composition. The book connects pedagogical practices in writing classes to their broader political economic contexts, and argues that the analy...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | Building on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach, Dangerous Writing outlines a political economic theory of composition. The book connects pedagogical practices in writing classes to their broader political economic contexts, and argues that the analytical power of students' writing is prevented from reaching its potential by pressures within the academy and without, that tend to wed higher education with the aims and logics of "fast-capitalism." Since the 1980s and the "social turn" in composition studies and other. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199). |
| ISBN: | 9780874217353 0874217350 9780874217346 |