Description
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 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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780809334506
Author Bruce Horner
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 373g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 17mm
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 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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780809334506
Author Bruce Horner
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 373g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 17mm
