Student Writing, Politics, and Style, 1962-1979 examines personal writings composed by American college students during the 1960s and 70s, a period that corresponds to important developments in U.S. postwar university student activism and in the modern disciplinary history of composition studies. I contend that students' experimentation with multiple genres of personal writing during this period disturbs a dominant historical narrative in composition and rhetoric that characterizes the theories and pedagogies of personal writing widely circulating in the sixties as "expressive." Looking closely at student-produced memoirs, journals, personal essays, and commencement orations, I argue that students in the sixties approached personal writing ...
Composition histories mainly focus on a study of official texts such as composition textbooks and ...
In composition studies, there exists a tension between representations of students as, on the one ha...
A theoretical understanding is offered to help explore how students attempt to reconcile divergent n...
The purpose of this study was to investigate issues of writer identity in a college classroom, espec...
This dissertation examines, from a poststructural perspective, the writing of three first-year colle...
Since its origin as a separate discipline in the early 1960s, Composition has been on shaky ground w...
This dissertation reports on a study investigating the identity of first-year university students as...
This dissertation is based on an interview study of twelve participants who had been students in var...
Within Writing Studies, the tension between pedagogy and theory, between teaching and disciplinary s...
This dissertation brings together sociocultural research on development and rhetorical revisionist s...
Inspired by my classroom experience and Deborah Brandt\u27s findings that generations of Americans w...
textThis dissertation reports the results of a year-long naturalistic study of students making the ...
The dissertation considers how I dealt with the problem of helping former basic writing students mee...
This study sought to understand how our students viewed themselves as writers, particularly in relat...
This practitioner inquiry investigates the writing practices of a particular twelfth-grade classroom...
Composition histories mainly focus on a study of official texts such as composition textbooks and ...
In composition studies, there exists a tension between representations of students as, on the one ha...
A theoretical understanding is offered to help explore how students attempt to reconcile divergent n...
The purpose of this study was to investigate issues of writer identity in a college classroom, espec...
This dissertation examines, from a poststructural perspective, the writing of three first-year colle...
Since its origin as a separate discipline in the early 1960s, Composition has been on shaky ground w...
This dissertation reports on a study investigating the identity of first-year university students as...
This dissertation is based on an interview study of twelve participants who had been students in var...
Within Writing Studies, the tension between pedagogy and theory, between teaching and disciplinary s...
This dissertation brings together sociocultural research on development and rhetorical revisionist s...
Inspired by my classroom experience and Deborah Brandt\u27s findings that generations of Americans w...
textThis dissertation reports the results of a year-long naturalistic study of students making the ...
The dissertation considers how I dealt with the problem of helping former basic writing students mee...
This study sought to understand how our students viewed themselves as writers, particularly in relat...
This practitioner inquiry investigates the writing practices of a particular twelfth-grade classroom...
Composition histories mainly focus on a study of official texts such as composition textbooks and ...
In composition studies, there exists a tension between representations of students as, on the one ha...
A theoretical understanding is offered to help explore how students attempt to reconcile divergent n...