Social Conflict, Teaching - English Language, Teaching - Writing, Participation & Pluralism in Democracies, Pluralism, Rhetoric - English Language
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Overview
An exploration of the sometimes tenuous relationship between textbooks and the discipline of composition and rhetoric, (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks critically scrutinizes the culture of textbooks from the vantage point of scholars and teachers. It examines a variety of textbooks including: standard rhetorics, handbooks, cross-cultural anthologies, readers, technical textbooks, and argumentation textbooks. Different perspectives are used to discuss the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing and publishing of these works. Contributors raise challenging questions about the relationship between textbooks and the cultures which produce them, the discipline of which they are an indispensable part, and the classrooms in which they are to have their most tangible effects on teaching and learning.Editorials
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Explores some issues such as the notion of cultural identity in multicultural readers, the ideological implications of the narrative of composition handbooks, the inadequacy of technical writing textbooks, what two decades of textbook advertising reveals about composition teaching, and the role of textbooks in theory and pedagogy. Other concerns are the conservative force that textbook publishers exert on writers and therefore readers, and why the industry is so eager to produce textbooks that neither teachers nor students like or use much. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
March 31, 1999
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999.
Pages
274
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791441213