Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousnes traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically - and to respond pedagogically - to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Critical...
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Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousnes traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically - and to respond pedagogically - to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Critical of even her own previous work, Patricia Bizzell presents a picture of how she has grappled with major issues in composition studies over the past decade and offers suggestions for the development of composition studies as an academic discipline
Contents; Introduction; The Ethos of Academic Discourse; Thomas Kuhn, Scientism, and English Studies; ""Inherent"" Ideology, ""Universal"" History, ""Empirical"" Evidence, and ""Context-Free"" Writing: Some Problems in E. D. Hirsch's The Philosophy of Composition (Coauthored with Bruce Herzberg); Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know About Writing; College Composition: Initiation Into the Academic Discourse Community; Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness: An Application of Paulo Freire; William Perry and Liberal Education
What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College?Composing Processes: An Overview; Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism in Composition Studies; What Is a Discourse Community?; Arguing About Literacy; Beyond Anti-Foundationalism to Rhetorical Authority: Problems Defining ""Cultural Literacy""; Afterword
