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Relocating Basic Writing., Bruce Horner
Relocating Basic Writing., Bruce Horner
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I frame the continuing value of basic writing as part of a long tradition in composition studies challenging dominant beliefs about literacy and language abilities, and I link basic writing to emerging--e.g."translingual"--approaches to language. I identify basic writing as vital to the field of composition in its rejection of simplistic notions of English, language, and literacy; its insistence on searching out the different in what might appear to be the same and the familiar; and its commitment to work with students consigned by dominant ideologies to the social periphery as in fact central, leading edge. These positions enable basic writing …
Healing The Cartesian Split: Understanding And Renewing Pathos In Academic Writing, Travis Washburn
Healing The Cartesian Split: Understanding And Renewing Pathos In Academic Writing, Travis Washburn
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