An edition of Basic writing as a political act
(2002)
Basic writing as a political act
public conversations about writing and literacies
by Linda Adler-Kassner
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Basic writing as a political act: public conversations about writing and literacies
2002, Hampton Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing 1
Basic Writing and the Problem of Autonomous Literacy 5
2 An Inward Glance: Basic Writing and Basic Writers in Basic Writing Research 13
Who Are Basic Writing Students? 15
Curricular Strategies: Helping Basic Writers 20
Pedagogical Alternatives: Basic Writing and Basic Writers in Context 24
3 "I Can Just Give You Five" Student Talk About Writing in School 33
Writing, Writers, and Transmission 34
School-Based Writing and Correctness 35
Writing Wrong 39
"Successful" Student Writing and Schooling 41
Enacting/Acting With: Beginning to Make Basic Writing a Political Act 42
4 Student Talk About Literacy Out of School 47
Students, Families, and Literacy 49
Beyond Family: Literacy Bonds 54
Real-Life Writing: Literacy in School and Beyond 56
Looking Outward: Basic Writing and Basic Writers in the Mainstream Media 61
The School-Success Narrative: Students in Middle-Class Culture 62
CUNY and the Failure of the School-Success Narrative: 'An Institution Adrift" 64
Powerless Students 69
General College: The Triumph of the School-Success Narrative 73
Basic Writing Coverage: Who Speaks, What is Said 78
6 Continuing the Conversation: Basic Writing Now and Beyond 83
Basic Writing Defined? 87
The Complications of Framing Basic Writing 89
Bureaucracy as Enabler and Constrainer 92
When is Basic Writing First-Year Composition Instead? 95
Making Basic Writing a Political Act: Curricular Change and the Basic Writing Classroom 96.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-111) and indexes.
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