CiNii Books - (Re)visioning composition textbooks : conflicts of culture, ideology, and pedagogy

An exploration of the sometimes tenuous relationship between textbooks and the discipline of composition and rhetoric, (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks critically scrutinizes the culture of textbooks from the vantage point of scholars and teachers. It examines a variety of textbooks including: standard rhetorics, handbooks, cross-cultural anthologies, readers, technical textbooks, and argumentation textbooks. Different perspectives are used to discuss the cultures, ideologies, traditions, and the material and political conditions that influence the writing and publishing of these works. Contributors raise challenging questions about the relationship between textbooks and the cultures which produce them, the discipline of which they are an indispensable part, and the classrooms in which they are to have their most tangible effects on teaching and learning.

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Acknowledgments Foreword Gary A. Olson I. Overview 1. Introduction Xin Liu Gale and Fredric G. Gale 2. In Case of Fire, Throw In (What to Do with Textbooks Once You Switch to Sourcebooks) David Bleich II. Textbooks, Culture, and Ideology 3. The Great Way: Reading and Writing in Freedom Kurt Spellmeyer 4. Self, Other, In-Between: Cross-Cultural Composition Readers and the Reconstruction of Cultural Identities Yameng Liu 5. Appreciating Narratives of Containment and Contentment: Reading the Writing Handbook as Public Discourse Joseph Janangelo 6. A Textbook's Theory: Current Composition Theory in Argument Textbooks Lizbeth A. Bryant III. Textbooks and Pedagogy 7. Teaching from a Single Textbook "Rhetoric": The Potential Heaviness of the Book Michael W. Kleine 8. Imitations of Life: Technical Writing Textbooks and the Social Context Fredric G. Gale 9. The "Full Toolbox" and Critical Thinking: Conflicts and Contradictions in The St. Martin's Guide to Writing Xin Liu Gale IV. Material and Political Conditions of Publishing Textbooks 10. Of Handbooks and Handbags: Composition Textbook Publishing after the Deal Decade Peter Mortensen 11. Textbook Advertisements in the Formation of Composition: 1969-1990 James Thomas Zebroski 12. Writing Writing Lives: The Collaborative Production of a Composition Text in a Large First-Year Writing Program Sara Garnes, David Humphries, Vic Mortimer, Jennifer Phegley, and Kathleen R. Wallace Contributors Index

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