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Translation As (Global) Writing, Bruce Horner, Laura Tetreault Jan 2016

Translation As (Global) Writing, Bruce Horner, Laura Tetreault

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This article explores translation as a useful point of departure and frame- work for taking a translingual approach to writing engaging globalization. Globalization and the knowledge economy are putting renewed emphasis on translation as a key site of contest between a dominant language ideology of monolingualism aligned with fast capitalist neoliberalism and an emerging language ideology variously identified as translingualism, plurilingualism, translanguaging, and transcultural literacy. We first distinguish between theories of translation aligned with neoliberalism, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a critical approach to translation focused on the difference that a translingual approach insists translation makes …


Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner May 2015

Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner

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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 …


Seeking New Worlds: The Study Of Writing Beyond Our Classrooms, Bronwyn T. Williams Sep 2010

Seeking New Worlds: The Study Of Writing Beyond Our Classrooms, Bronwyn T. Williams

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As new ways of creating and interpreting texts complicate ideas of how and why writing happens, the field of rhetoric and composition needs to be more conscious of how our institutional responsibilities and scholarly attention to college writing have limited its vision of writing and literacy. It is time to move beyond consolidating our identity as a field focused on college writing, reach out to other literacy-related fields, and form a broader, more comprehensive, and more flexible identity as part of a larger field of literacy and rhetorical studies.


James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner Oct 2007

James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner

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