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James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner
James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner
Bruce Horner
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Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner
Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner
Bruce Horner
This essay argues that calls to end, move beyond, or expand composition participate in a discourse of need that accepts and reinforces the legitimacy of dominant, and restricted, definitions of not only composition but also alternatives to it: what we are led to believe is “new,” “different,” and therefore “better” than composition as conventionally defined. I analyze the operation of this discourse in David Smit’s The End of Composition Studies, Sidney Dobrin’s Postcomposition, and calls to make up for composition’s ostensible lacks by supplementing it with rhetoric or multimodal composition or by renaming it “writing studies.” Drawing on J. K. …