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Rhetoric and Composition

Selected Works

2016

Composition

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James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner Sep 2016

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 Sep 2016

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. …


"I Second That Emotion": Minding How Plagiarism Feels, Ann E. Biswas Apr 2016

"I Second That Emotion": Minding How Plagiarism Feels, Ann E. Biswas

Ann E. Biswas

It stands to reason that when writing teachers believe their students have plagiarized, they will experience strong emotions that impact their relationships with students, their pedagogy, and their sense of professional identity. Far from being a threat to reason, understanding and acknowledging writing teachers’ emotional responses to plagiarism can lead to a deeper wisdom of its true impact. By examining the literature on emotion from psychology, sociology, education, and writing studies as well as findings from a pilot study of writing teachers’ emotional responses to plagiarism, this article argues that the work involved in managing the emotions of plagiarism reflects …