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From Silence To Words : Writing As Struggle., Min-Zhan Lu
From Silence To Words : Writing As Struggle., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
No abstract provided.
A Pedagogy Of Struggle : The Use Of Cultural Dissonance., Min-Zhan Lu
A Pedagogy Of Struggle : The Use Of Cultural Dissonance., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
No abstract provided.
Redefining The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy : A Critique Of The Politics Of Linguistic Innocence., Min-Zhan Lu
Redefining The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy : A Critique Of The Politics Of Linguistic Innocence., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
This article examines Mina Shaughnessy's Errors and Expectations in light of current discourse theories which posit language as a site of struggle among competing discourses. It finds Shaughnessy's analyses and recommended pedagogies dominated by a view of language as a politically innocent vehicle of meaning. The author argues that this view of language leads Shaughnessy to overlook basic writers' need to confront the dissonance they experience between academic and other discourses, which might undercut her goal of helping students achieve the "freedom of deciding how and when and where to use which language." The author further argues that to pursue …
Conflict And Struggle : The Enemies Of Preconditions Of Basic Writing?, Min-Zhan Lu
Conflict And Struggle : The Enemies Of Preconditions Of Basic Writing?, Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
No abstract provided.
Professing Multiculturalism : The Politics Of Style In The Contact Zone., Min-Zhan Lu
Professing Multiculturalism : The Politics Of Style In The Contact Zone., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
No abstract provided.
Symposium On Basic Writing, Conflict And Struggle, And The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy., Patricia Laurence, Peter Rondinone, Barbara Gleason, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul Hunter, Min-Zhan Lu
Symposium On Basic Writing, Conflict And Struggle, And The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy., Patricia Laurence, Peter Rondinone, Barbara Gleason, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul Hunter, Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
Two articles in the December 1992 College English presented historical perspectives on the field of Basic Writing. In "Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing?" Min-Zhan Lu argued for the value of a pedagogy in which conflict and struggle help Basic Writers to reposition themselves; she suggested that resistance to such a pedagogy is traceable to three pioneers in the field, Kenneth Bruffee, Thomas Farrell, and Mina Shaughnessy, and the historical context in which they worked. In "Waiting for an Aristotle, " Paul Hunter analyzed the special issue of the Journal of Basic Writing published in 1980 …
Redefining The Literate Self : The Politics Of Cultural Affirmation., Min-Zhan Lu
Redefining The Literate Self : The Politics Of Cultural Affirmation., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
No abstract provided.
Review : Life Writing As Social Acts., Min-Zhan Lu, Elizabeth Robertson
Review : Life Writing As Social Acts., Min-Zhan Lu, Elizabeth Robertson
Min-Zhan Lu
No abstract provided.
An Essay On The Work Of Composition : Composing English Against The Order Of Fast Capitalism., Min-Zhan Lu
An Essay On The Work Of Composition : Composing English Against The Order Of Fast Capitalism., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
This is an attempt to define what being a responsible and responsive user of English might mean in a world ordered by global capital, a world where all forms of intra- and international exchanges in all areas of life are increasingly under pressure to involve English. Turning to recent work in linguistics and education, I pose a set of alternative assumptions that might help us develop more responsible and responsive approaches to the relation between English and its users (both those labeled Native-Speaking, White or Middle Class, and those Othered by these labels), the language needs and purposes of individual …
The Politics Of The Personal : Storying Our Lives Against The Grain., Deborah Brandt, Ellen Cushman, Anne Ruggles Gere, Anne Herrington, Richard E. Miller, Victor Villanueva, Min-Zhan Lu, Gesa Kirsch
The Politics Of The Personal : Storying Our Lives Against The Grain., Deborah Brandt, Ellen Cushman, Anne Ruggles Gere, Anne Herrington, Richard E. Miller, Victor Villanueva, Min-Zhan Lu, Gesa Kirsch
Min-Zhan Lu
This symposium presents a written dialogue of scholars expressing not only excitement but also frustration over the ways in which current work in composition and literacy studies has explored the politics of the personal.
Living English Work., Min-Zhan Lu
Living English Work., Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
Keeping in mind the Chinese character-combination yuyan, with its multiple meanings of language, parts of language, the processes of language, and the products of those processes, the author depicts English as kept alive by many people and by many different ways of using it in a wide range of personal, social, and historical contexts. She proposes four lines of inquiry “against the grain” of English-only instruction—that living-English users weigh what English can do for them against what it has done to them; that they weigh what English can do against what it cannot do; that they understand English as being …
Working Rhetoric And Composition., Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu
Working Rhetoric And Composition., Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu
Min-Zhan Lu
Given the multiple meanings of rhetoric and composition, as well as the vexed history of institutional relationships between these two terms, it is important for scholars to trace how they are “worked”—that is, how they materially function—in a variety of specific circumstances.
Introduction : Translingual Work., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Introduction : Translingual Work., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Min-Zhan Lu
This issue both reflects and builds on the efforts prompted by the 2011 College English essay “Language Difference in Writing: Toward a Translingual Approach,” by Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and John Trimbur. Contributions to this symposium contextualize the emergence of a translingual approach, explore the tension and interconnections between a translingual approach and a variety of fields, and explore the viability of a translingual approach in light of existing academic structures.
The Problematic Of Experience : Redefining Critical Work In Ethnography And Pedagogy., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
The Problematic Of Experience : Redefining Critical Work In Ethnography And Pedagogy., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Min-Zhan Lu
Explores the convergence between projects in ethnographic research and composition pedagogy that emphasize the critical power of experience. Argues that critical ethnography and pedagogy need to redefine "experience" and its function for research and teaching and that composition can help this redefinition by looking for ways to build and constructively use a tension between teaching and research practices.
Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, And Matters Of Agency., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, And Matters Of Agency., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Min-Zhan Lu
We argue that composition scholarship’s defenses of language differences in student writing reinforce dominant ideology’s spatial framework conceiving language difference as deviation from a norm of sameness. We argue instead for adopting a temporal-spatial framework defining difference as the norm of utterances, and defining languages, literacy practices, conventions, and contexts as always emergent, ongoing products of iterations, and thus manifestations of writer agency. Using the “White Shoes” essay from David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University,” we show how such a framework addresses the writer’s agency iterating the “same,” and how it resolves concerns to meet students’ need and right to learn …
Expectations, Interpretations And Contributions Of Basic Writing., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Expectations, Interpretations And Contributions Of Basic Writing., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Min-Zhan Lu
This essay argues that Basic Writing students, teachers, and scholarship are crucial to enabling colleges and universities to live up to their ideals of diversity, interdisciplinarity, and student-centered learning. BW scholars and teachers have developed ways to work with students to better understand the different perspectives they bring to their writing and learning, and to use those perspectives to break down barriers between academic and non-academic worlds and develop "borderland" knowledge and perspectives. The authors call for more research exploring the potential of basic writing students to develop such perspectives, and for research exploring the implications of BW scholarship for …
Language Difference In Writing : Toward A Translingual Approach., Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, John Trimbur
Language Difference In Writing : Toward A Translingual Approach., Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, John Trimbur
Min-Zhan Lu
Arguing against the emphasis of traditional U.S. composition classes on linguistically homogeneous situations, the authors contend that this focus is at odds with actual language use today. They call for a translingual approach, which they define as seeing difference in language not as a barrier to overcome or as a problem to manage, but as a resource for producing meaning in writing, speaking, reading, and listening.
Composing In A Global-Local Context : Careers, Mobility, Skills., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Composing In A Global-Local Context : Careers, Mobility, Skills., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner
Min-Zhan Lu
When composition students look to their teachers for vocational guidance, both groups should acknowledge that the contexts of such terms as career, mobility, and skills have radically changed. In particular, the economy now links the global with the local, and capitalism has shifted from the fordist model, dominant through much of the twentieth century, to a newer, “fast” model.