Dangerous writing: understanding the political economy of composition
Date
2009
Authors
Scott, Tony, author
Utah State University Press, publisher
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Abstract
Building on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach, Dangerous Writing outlines a political economic theory of composition. The book connects pedagogical practices in writing classes to their broader political economic contexts, and argues that the analytical power of students' writing is prevented from reaching its potential by pressures within the academy and without, that tend to wed higher education with the aims and logics of "fast-capitalism." Since the 1980s and the "social turn" in composition studies and other.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Political aspects -- United States
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Social aspects -- United States
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects -- United States
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States
College students -- United States -- Economic conditions
College students -- United States -- Social conditions