Synopses & Reviews
AUTHORSHIP IN COMPOSITION STUDIES examines contemporary composition instruction within the larger context of the historical, theoretical, and practical issues that have helped define today's classroom. Specifically, Carrick and Howard the historical, legal, and social constructions of the Author; the ways in which Western discourses of authorship serve to regulate and control unruly social bodies; the ways in which discourses of authorship enter into Composition classrooms, textbooks, and writing centers; the roles of technology and gender in regulating Authors and student writers; and the ways in which Western discourses of authorship affect not just ESL students in Composition courses but the very survival of colonized cultures. This title is one of THE WADSWORTH GUIDES TO COMPOSITION STUDIES?a new series designed to help upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students gain a historical, theoretical, and practical context for their studies in composition and the teaching of writing. Each guide in this series examines a particular aspect of the composition specialist's work; for example, teaching first-year composition, administration-related issues, and writing as it is taught across campus. Providing theoretical information within a practical context, each guide is designed to provide the historical knowledge and terminology that beginning students in the field need to understand.
Synopsis
Gain a historical, theoretical, and practical context for your studies in composition with AUTHORSHIP IN COMPOSITION STUDIES! Designed to help you digest and synthesize theory, history, and practice, this English text provide the historical knowledge and terminology that beginning students in the field need to understand. With coverage of concrete advice, talking-points for class discussion, and suggested exercises and writing assignments, you will develop your understanding of contemporary composition instruction.
Synopsis
Gain a historical, theoretical, and practical context for your studies in composition with AUTHORSHIP IN COMPOSITION STUDIES Designed to help you digest and synthesize theory, history, and practice, this English text provide the historical knowledge and terminology that beginning students in the field need to understand. With coverage of concrete advice, talking-points for class discussion, and suggested exercises and writing assignments, you will develop your understanding of contemporary composition instruction.
Synopsis
Part of The Heinle Series in Composition Studies, this volume is the only introductory text to survey the theory of authorship as it pertains to familiar issues addressed in the composition classroom.
About the Author
Tracy Hamler Carrick completed her graduate work at Syracuse University in the Composition and Rhetoric and Women's Studies Programs. She has taught writing and worked in writing centers in both academia and the community since 1993. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Farnham Writers' Center, and Co-coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum at Colby College. She is co-author of RUPTURA: ACKNOWLEDGING THE LOST SUBJECTS OF THE SERVICE LEARNING STORY (Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 2000) and is working on a book which examines relationships between literacy education and social change movements in the US. Rebecca Moore Howard is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University and the former writing program administrator at Syracuse, Texas Christian, and Colgate Universities. She is coauthor of the 1995 BEDFORD GUIDE TO TEACHING WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES; author of STANDING IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS (1999), a book about the cultural work of plagiarism; coeditor of COMING OF AGE: THE ADVANCED WRITING CURRICULUM, which won the 2000-2001 WPA Book Award; and author of a writers' handbook in progress for McGraw-Hill.
Table of Contents
Series Preface. Preface. 1. The Binaries of Authorship. 2. Copyright, Plagiarism, and the Law. 3. The Erotics of Authorship. 4. Students and Authors in Introductory Composition Scholarship. 5. Students and Authors in Writing Composition Textbooks. 6. Students and Authors in Writing Centers. 7. Authorship and Technology. 8. Genders and Authors. 9. Contesting U.S. Cultures of Authorship. 10. Spot Keeps Turning Up: Equality in Authorship(s) and Pedagogy. Works Cited. Contributors. Index.