(Re)visioning composition textbooks : conflicts of culture, ideology, and pedagogy /

(Re)visioning composition textbooks : conflicts of culture, ideology, and pedagogy / Revisioning composition textbooks edited by Xin Liu Gale and Frederic G. Gale ; foreword by Gary A. Olson. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999. - 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Xin Liu Gale and Fredric G. Gale -- In case of fire, throw in (what to do with textbooks once you switch to sourcebooks) / David Bleich -- The great way: reading and writing in freedom / Kurt Spellmeyer -- Self, other, in-between: cross-cultural composition readers and the reconstruction of cultural identities / Yameng Liu -- Appreciating narratives of containment and contentment: reading the writing handbook as public discourse / Joseph Janangelo -- A textbook's theory: current composition theory in argument textbooks / Lizbeth A. Bryant -- Teaching from a single textbook "rhetoric": the potential heaviness of the book / Michael W. Kleine -- Imitations of life: technical writing textbooks and the social context / Fredric G. Gale -- The "full toolbox" and critical thinking: conflicts and contradictions in the St. Martin's guide to writing / Xin Liu Gale -- Of handbooks and handbags: composition textbook publishing after the deal decade / Peter Mortensen -- Textbook advertisements in the formation of composition: 1969-1990 / James Thomas Zebroski -- Writing Writing lives: the collaborative production of a composition text in a large first-year writing program / Sara Garnes [and others].

0585062528 (electronic bk.) 9780585062525 (electronic bk.) 9780791441213 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0791441210 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9780791441220 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0791441229 (pbk. ; alk. paper)


English language--Rhetoric--History--20th century.--Textbooks
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Political aspects.
English language--Rhetoric--Publishing.--Textbooks
Report writing--Study and teaching.
Cultural pluralism.
Culture conflict.
Culture shock.
Rapports--Rédaction--Étude et enseignement.
Diversité culturelle.
Conflit culturel.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
Cultural pluralism.
Culture conflict.
English language--Rhetoric.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Political aspects.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
Report writing--Study and teaching.


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History.

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