Rewriting Composition: Terms of Exchange - Softcover

Horner, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080933450X ISBN 13: 9780809334506

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2016

Synopsis

Reimagining composition’s key terms
Bruce Horner’s Rewriting Composition: Terms of Exchange shows how dominant inflections of key terms in composition―language, labor, value/evaluation, discipline, and composition itself―reinforce composition’s low institutional status and the poor working conditions of many of its instructors and tutors. Horner demonstrates ways to challenge debilitating definitions of these terms and to rework them and their relations to one another in constructive ways.

Each chapter of Rewriting Composition focuses on one key term, discussing how limitations set by dominant definitions shape and direct what compositionists do and how they think about their work. By exposing limitations in dominant conceptions of the work of composition and by modeling and opening up space for new conceptions of key terms, Rewriting Composition offers teachers of composition and rhetoric, writing scholars, and writing program administrators the critical tools necessary for charting the future of composition studies.

About this title

About the Author

Bruce Horner is Endowed Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. His previous books include Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique, recipient of the 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book on composition theory, and Writing Conventions, coauthored with MinZhan Lu. Horner is also coeditor of CrossLanguage Relations in Composition, winner of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award in 2012, and Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global Interrogations, Local Interventions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080933450X
• ISBN 13: 9780809334506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272