Introducing English
Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition
Published on 16. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8229-5752-2 (ISBN)
Description
James Slevin traces how composition emerged for him not as a vehicle for improving student writing, but rather as a way of working collaboratively with students to interpret educational practices and work for educational reform.
Reviews / Votes
This is a book only James Slevin could have written, and it is a book for which many in the field have been waiting for a long time. I sometimes felt as if he were writing this book just for me-or to put it another way, to those who have been in this field for the last thirty years, struggling with-and sometimes against-each other. * Andrea A. Lunsford, Stanford University * I have been familiar with James Slevin's work for a long time. I hear his way of thinking operating everywhere in this text, and it is a way of thinking that I admire and from which I learn. * Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-5752-2 (9780822957522)
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Person
James F. Slevin is professor of English at Georgetown University and, alone and with others, has written and/or edited major contributions to the field, including The Right to Literacy, The Future of Doctoral Students in English, Critical Theory and the T