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Author Scott, Tony, 1968-

Title Dangerous writing : understanding the political economy of composition / Tony Scott.

Imprint Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199).
Contents Introduction: embodying the social in writing education -- Professionals and bureaucrats -- Writing the program: the genre function of the writing textbook -- How "social" is social class identification? -- Students working -- Writing dangerously.
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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Language English.
Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Political aspects -- United States.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects -- United States.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States.
College students -- United States -- Economic conditions.
College students -- United States -- Social conditions.
Écriture savante -- Étude et enseignement -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.
Écriture savante -- Étude et enseignement -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
Étudiants -- États-Unis -- Conditions économiques.
Étudiants -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
College students -- Economic conditions
College students -- Social conditions
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Other Form: Print version: Scott, Tony, 1968- Dangerous writing. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2009 9780874217346 (DLC) 2008047646 (OCoLC)289067787
ISBN 9780874217353 (electronic bk.)
0874217350 (electronic bk.)
0874217342 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874217346 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874217346 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780874217346
AU@ 000051360155
DEBBG BV043786204
DEBBG BV044118188
DEBSZ 472469061
GBVCP 1008653829
UKMGB 020143699

 
    
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