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OverviewSituated Stories seeks to enlarge our research community by expanding on both the questions we ask and the ways we go about answering those questions. Emily Decker and Kathleen Geissler believe that writing courses are sites for mutual negotiation, places where people from all kinds of backgrounds confront the dominant institutional values. In presenting these investigations, their book calls attention to the diverse students in today's classrooms and to the pedagogical consequences of acknowledging this diversity. The authors of these chapters introduce us to some new dimensions of composition studies. They describe the issues, challenges, and aspirations of a variety of writers; they share their struggles to define what it means to teach composition; they reflect on what it means to do research. United in their commitment to help students grow, to claim a place in the academy, to develop effective voices, all of these instructors have struggled to find the right names for things. Their articles offer new definitions of meaningful questions--and of legitimate answers--all the time helping to define what it means to truly value diversity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emily Decker , Kathleen GeisslerPublisher: Heinemann USA Imprint: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780867094404ISBN 10: 0867094400 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 09 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews-Situated Stories contributes in important ways to the ongoing public conversation about the nature of contemporary society.--Composition Studies ?Situated Stories contributes in important ways to the ongoing public conversation about the nature of contemporary society.?-Composition Studies Author InformationEmily Decker is associate director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education, a public service center of The Evergreen State College where faculty and administrators collaborate across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Previously, she helped design and implement portfolio-based writing assessment for undergraduates at the University of Michigan. Kathleen Geissler has taught writing and women's studies, composition theory, history of rhetoric, and theories of literacy and reading. Currently, she is associate professor of English at Michigan State University and associate director of the Center for Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities, where she directs an interdisciplinary, writing-intensive general education course. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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