The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice

by Pemberton, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9781567504712
• ISBN10: 156750471X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-22
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

The chapters in this volume recognize that different contexts, sites, and institutional goals will raise different sets of questions and judgements about what constitutes ethical writing instruction, ethical response to written texts, and ethical evaluation of a writers process and products. They do not aim to resolve all the ethical questions that might arise in and about composition classrooms, but they present a panoply of views, arguments, and perspectives on what it means to talk about ethics in the writing classroom and thereby encourage writing teachers to consider the ethical dimensions of their own instructional practices.

Author Biography

Michael A. Pemberton is Assistant Professor in the Writing and Linguistics department at Georgia Southern University,where he also directs the University Writing Center.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Michael A. Pemberton
Part I. Ethics and the Composition Classroom
Pedagogical Ethics and a Cultural Studies Composition Course: Implications of Discourse Ethics	3	(20)
Lisa M. Toner
Advocacy in the Writing Classroom	23	(12)
John Ruszkiewicz
Advocating Language: An Ethical Approach to Politics in the Classroom	35	(30)
William H. Thelin
Refiguring Classroom Authority	65	(14)
Andrea Abernethy Lunsford
The Ethics of Plagiarism	79	(12)
Rebecca Moore Howard
An Ethics of Difference	91	(14)
Myrna Harrienger
Nan Uber-Kellogg
Part II. Ethics and Specialized Writing Programs
Composition as Service: Implications of Utilitarian, Duties, and Care Ethics	105	(34)
Larry Beason
Ethics in Technical/Professional Communication: From Telling the Truth to Making Better Decisions in a Complex World	139	(28)
Cezar M. Ornatowski
Part III. Ethics and the Profession
A Conflict of Personal and Institutional Ethics: Writing Instruction and Composition Scholarship	167	(24)
Mary Trachsel
Literacy, Equality, and Competence: Ethics in Writing Assessment	191	(20)
Michael M. Williamson
Brian Huot
Exploring Our Ethics of Evaluating Student Writing	211	(26)
Jane Detweiler
Jane Mathison Fife
Robert W. McEachern
Lauren Sewell Coulter
Going Public	237	(28)
Peter Mortensen
The Ethics of Public Review	265	(10)
Miles Myers
Author Index	275	(6)
Subject Index	281	(4)
About the Editor	285	(2)
About the Contributors	287