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Overview
In this book, Bruce Horner provides a cultural materialist critique of discourse on work in composition. Each chapter traces the ways in which one of the defining terms of composition - work, students, politics, academic, traditional, and writing - operates as a site for competing constructions of composition's identity.Synopsis
From the author's introduction: "This book is aligned with the turn in Composition studies to the history of Composition theory and practice. It attempts to extend a growing critique of the professional discourse of composition to which such historical studies have contributed, and it participates in scholars' increasing attention to the social and political location of writing and writing instruction. More specifically, it is intended to complement and further recent feminist critiques of work in Composition and education..." In separate chapters, Horner (English, Drake University) looks closely at the defining terms of composition and . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR