Writing in Multicultural Settings

by Severino, Carol; Guerra, Juan C.; Butler, Johnnella E.

• ISBN13: 9780873525848
• ISBN10: 0873525841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

The twenty essays and four responses ("cross-talks") in this volume, the fifth in the Research and Scholarship in Composition series, confront the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students. The contributors, who teach in classrooms and writing centers at a variety of private and public institutions, discuss their immersion in students' discourses and cultures and balance descriptions of their teaching experiences with careful and critical reflection.

Writing in Multicultural Settings is essential, thought-provoking reading for college administrators, writing teachers, and scholars and students in composition studies.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Embracing a Multicultural Rhetoric	p. 12
Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Marked Features in the Writing of Black English Speakers	p. 27
Teaching American Indian Students: Interpreting the Rhetorics of Silence	p. 40
Exploring Bias in Essay Tests	p. 51
"Real Niggaz's Don't Die": African American Students Speaking Themselves into Their Writing	p. 67
Negotiating Authority through One-to-One Collaboration in the Multicultural Writing Center	p. 79
Cross-Talk: Talking Cross-Difference	p. 94
Two Approaches to "Cultural Text": Toward Multicultural Literacy	p. 106
Decolonizing the Classroom: Freshman Composition in a Multicultural Setting	p. 118
Writing Identities: The Essence of Difference in Multicultural Classrooms	p. 133
Composition Readers and the Construction of Identity	p. 150
"But Isn't This the Land of the Free?": Resistance and Discovery in Student Responses to Farewell to Manzanar	p. 172
Cross-Talk: Teachers, Texts, Readers, and Writers	p. 189
Contrastive Rhetoric: Implications for Teachers of Writing in Multicultural Classrooms	p. 198
Differences in ESL and Native-English-Speaker Writing: The Research and Its Implications	p. 209
Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center: Expectations and Assumptions of ESL Students	p. 220
Cross-Talk: ESL Issues and Contrastive Rhetoric	p. 234
The Place of Intercultural Literacy in the Writing Classroom	p. 248
The Politics of Difference: Toward a Pedagogy of Reciprocity	p. 261
An Afrocentric Multicultural Writing Project	p. 273
"Better Than What People Told Me I Was": What Students of Color Tell Us about the Multicultural Composition Classroom	p. 287
Students on the Border	p. 298
When the Writing Test Fails: Assessing Assessment at an Urban College	p. 307
Cross-Talk: Toward Transcultural Writing Classrooms	p. 325
Notes on Contributors	p. 333
Works Cited	p. 339
Index	p. 365
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