Under Construction

by Farris, Christine; Anson, Christopher M.

• ISBN13: 9780874212570
• ISBN10: 087421257X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

The diverse contributors to this volume promote a view of the field of composition studies that values interaction and mutual development above dogmatics and isolation.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Complicating Composition	1	(10)
Christine Farris
Chris M. Anson
PART ONE: The Research/Theory/Practice Relationship
Theory, Research, Practice, Work	11	(8)
Christopher Ferry
Composing Composition Studies: Scholarly Publication and the Practice of Discipline	19	(11)
Peter Vandenberg
Toward a Theory of Theory for Composition Studies	30	(21)
James Zebroski
PART TWO: Critiquing Theories in Practice
The Dialogic Function of Composition Pedagogy: Negotiating Between Critical Theory and Public Values	51	(14)
Rebecca Moore Howard
Keeping Honest: Working Class Students, Difference, and Rethinking the Critical Agenda in Composition	65	(14)
David Seitz
Rethinking the Personal Narrative: Life-Writing and Composition Pedagogy	79	(14)
Deborah Mutnick
What Difference the Differences Make: Theoretical and Epistemological Differences in Writing Assessment Practice	93	(18)
Brian Huot
Michael Williamson
PART THREE: Refiguring and Relocating Research
Voices of Research: Methodological Choices of a Disciplinary Community	111	(13)
Susan Peck MacDonald
Grounded Theory: A Critical Research Methodology	124	(12)
Joyce Magnotto Neff
Feminist Methodology: Dilemmas for Graduate Researchers	136	(14)
Shirley Rose
Janice Lauer
Insider/Outsider/Other?: Confronting the Centeredness of Race, Class, Color and Ethnicity in Composition Research	150	(16)
Yuet-Sim Chiang
Re-centering Authority: Social Reflexivity and Re-Positioning in Composition Research	166	(15)
Ellen Cushman
Terese Guinsatao Monberg
Tracking Composition Research on the World Wide Web	181	(15)
Susan Romano
Farther Afield: Rethinking the Contributions of Research	196	(21)
Ruth Ray
Ellen Barton
PART FOUR: Remarking Knowledge and Rewriting Practice
A Rhetoric of Teacher-Talk---Or How to Make More Out of Lore	217	(17)
Wendy Bishop
Theory, Practice, and the Bridge Between: The Methods Course and Reflective Rhetoric	234	(16)
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Rewriting Praxis (and Redefining Texts) in Composition Research	250	(32)
Nancy Maloney Grimm
Anne Frances Wysocki
Marilyn M. Cooper
Coming (in)to Consciousness: One Asian American Teacher's Journey into Activist Teaching and Research	282	(20)
Gail Okawa
Works Cited	302	(22)
Contributors	324	(5)
Index	329