"We have the responsibility to initiate students into the ongoing production

of text by enabling them not only to perform literary exegesis and effective

exposition but also to discern in texts—their own included

—the material conditions of production, the historical role of a text

in the cultural reproduction of (and resistance to) power."

Composition as Cultural Practice

Alan France

Readings

 

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Delpit, Lisa - The Silenced Dialogue

Freire, Paulo - Cultural Workers (Ch. 1)

Freire, Paulo - Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Ch. 2)

hooks, bell - Language-Teaching New Worlds/New Words

Lindemann, Erika - Responding to Student Writing

Morrison, Toni - Recitatif

Roskelly, Hephzibah - The Risky Business of Group Work

Shaughnessy, Mina - Errors and Expectations

Straub, Richard - Responding-Really Responding-to Other Students' Writing