City Comp
Identities, Spaces, Practices
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
248 pages
978-0-7914-8772-3 (ISBN)
Description
An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.
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Persons
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bruce McComiskey is Associate Professor and Cynthia Ryan is Assistant Professor of English. McComiskey is the author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. Cynthia Ryan's published work focuses on professional writing and medical rhetoric.
Content
Foreword
Linda Flower Introduction
Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama
Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City
Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing
Krista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing
Paula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community
Susan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project
Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility
Van E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies
Jeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies
Richard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University
David A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"
Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education
Barbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership
Ann M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Patrick Bruch List of Contributors Index
Linda Flower Introduction
Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama
Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City
Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing
Krista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing
Paula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community
Susan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project
Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility
Van E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies
Jeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies
Richard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University
David A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"
Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education
Barbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership
Ann M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Patrick Bruch List of Contributors Index
