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Getting restless

Name: Getting restless
Author: Nancy Welch
ISBN: 9780867094008

by Nancy Welch

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Overview

Drawing primarily on feminist and psychoanalytic theories, Welch considers how revision can be redefined not as a process of increasing orientation toward a particular thesis or discourse community, but instead as a process of dis-orientation.

About the Author, Nancy Welch

Nancy Welch is the author/coeditor of the Boynton/Cook titles Living Room (2008), The Dissertation and the Discipline: Reinventing Composition Studies (2002), and Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction (1997). She is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where she teaches composition, rhetoric, literacy studies, and women's studies. She has also published a collection of short stories, The Road from Prosperity.