The changing of knowledge in composition : contemporary perspectives / edited by Lance Massey, Richard C. Gebhardt.

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9780874218213

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Massey, Lance, 1969-

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1 online resource (335 pages)

Contents:

The significance of North's The making of knowledge in composition for graduate education / Edward M. White -- The world according to North-and beyond: the changing geography of composition studies / Lynn Z. Bloom -- The epistemic paradoxes of "lore": from The making of knowledge in composition to the present (almost) / Richard Fulkerson -- Philosophies of invention twenty years after The making of knowledge in composition / Kelly Pender -- Making knowledge, shaping history: critical consciousness and the historical impulse in composition studies / Erica Frisicaro-Pawlowski -- Makers of knowledge in writing centers: practicioners, scholars, and researchers at work / Sarah Liggett, Kerri Jordan, and Steve Price -- Rhetoric, racism, and the remaking of knowledge-making in composition / Victor Villanueva -- Undergraduate researchers as makers of knowledge in composition in the writing studies major / Joyce Kinkead -- Pedagogy, lore, and the making of being / Matthew Jackson -- Practice as inquiry, Stephen M. North's teaching and contemporary public policy / Patricia A. Dunn -- On the place of writing in higher education (and why it doesn't include composition) / Stephen M. North -- Stephen North's The making of knowledge in composition and the future of composition studies "without paradigm hope" / David Smit -- Are we there yet? The making of a discipline in composition / Kristine Hansen -- Coordinating citations and the cartography of knowledge: finding true North in five scholarly journals / Brad E. Lucas and Drew M. Loewe -- Making space in composition studies: discursive ecologies as inquiry / Patricia Webb Boyd -- The (dis)order of composition: insights from the rhetoric and reception of The making of knowledge in composition / Lance Massey.

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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.

Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)

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Massey, Lance, 1969-

Gebhardt, Richard C.

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2011

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Summary

Lance Massey and Richard Gebhardt offer in this collection many signs that composition again faces a moment of precariousness, even as it did in the 1980s--the years of the great divorce from literary studies. The contours of writing in the university again are rapidly changing, making the objects of scholarship in composition again unstable. Composition is poised to move not from modern to postmodern but from process to postprocess, from a service-oriented "field" to a research-driven "discipline." Some would say we are already there. Momentum is building to replace "composition" and the pedagogical imperative long implied in that term with a "writing studies" model devoted to the study of composition as a fundamental tool of, and force within, all areas of human activity.

Appropriately, contributors here use Stephen M. North's 1987 book The Making of Knowledge in Composition to frame and background their discussion, as they look at both the present state of the field and its potential futures. As in North's volume, The Changing of Knowledge in Composition describes a body of research and pedagogy brimming with conflicting claims, methodologies, and politics, and with little consensus regarding the proper subjects and modes of inquiry.

The deep ambivalence within the field itself is evident in this collection. Contributors here envision composition both as retaining its commitment to broad-based, generalized writing instruction and as heading toward content-based vertical writing programs in departments and programs of writing studies. They both challenge and affirm composition's pedagogical heritage. And they sound both sanguine and pessimistic notes about composition's future.

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Choice Review

This collection offers a rich response to Stephen M. North's landmark The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field (CH, Mar'88). Massey and Gebhardt (both, Bowling Green State Univ.) present a variety of perspectives on the evolving field of composition studies. The volume starts with general praise and criticism of North's book from two leading composition scholars (Edward M. White and Lynn Z. Bloom), and it then investigates contemporary research practices, pedagogical concerns, and the ways North anticipated composition's current status. Certain themes and tensions run through several essays, including the relationships between modern and postmodern, teaching and research, scholarship and "lore," and general education versus the writing major. North himself contributes not only a full-length essay but also a commentary at the start and the end of the book, the latter highlighting the challenges and hopes expressed in the volume's various essays. The collection as a whole offers both breadth and depth as contributors look back only long enough to move forward. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. L. McMillan Marywood University