Basic Writing - Brossura

Otte, George; Mlynarczyk, Rebecca Williams

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1602351740 ISBN 13: 9781602351745

Casa editrice: Parlor Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Framed by historic developmentsùfrom the Open Admissions movement of the 1960's and 1970's to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the 1990's and beyondùBasic Writing traces the arc of these large social and cultural forces as they have shaped and reshaped the field. George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk balance fidelity to the past with present relevance, local concerns with (presumptively) global knowledge, personal judgment with (apparent) objectivity. Basic Writing circles back on the same general story, looking for different themes or seeing the same themes from different perspectives. What emerges is a gestalt of Basic Writing that will give readers interested in its history, self-definition, pedagogy, or research a sense of the important trends and patterns. Otte and Mlynarczyk make research trajectories clear without oversimplifying them or denying the undeniable blurring, dissensus, and differential development that characterizes the field.

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Informazioni sull?autore

George Otte is a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD Programs in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. He served as coeditor of the Journal of Basic Writing from 1996 to 2002. He is the coauthor with Nondita Mason of Writers' Roles: _Enactments- of the Process (Harcourt, 1994) and, with Linda Palumbo, of Casts of Thought: Writing In and Against Tradition (Macmillan, 1990).
Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk has taught basic writing at the City University of New York since 1974. She is currently Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Kingsborough Community College, where she codirects the ESL program. She is the author of Conversations of the Mind: The Uses of Journal Writing for Second-Language Learners (Erlbaum) and the coauthor, with Steven Haber, of In Our Own Words: Student Writers at Work (Cambridge). She has served as coeditor of the Journal of Basic Writing since 2003.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Parlor Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1602351740
• ISBN 13: 9781602351745
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 227
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile