City comp : identities, spaces, practices / edited by Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
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xii, 248 pages ; 23 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword / Linda Flower
    • Introduction / Bruce McComiskey, Cynthia Ryan
    • Negotiating Identities
    • Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama / Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, Cynthia Ryan
    • Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City / Elizabeth Ervin, Dan Collins
    • A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing / Krista Hiser
    • "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing / Paula Mathieu
    • From Urban Classroom to Urban Community / Susan Swan
    • Composing Spaces
    • Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project / Ed Nagelhout, Marilyn McKinney
    • A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility / Van E. Hillard
    • The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies / Jeffrey T. Grabill
    • Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies / Richard Marback
    • Redefining Practices
    • Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University / David A. Jolliffe
    • Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University" / Lynee Lewis Gaillet
    • Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education / Barbara Gleason
    • Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership / Ann M. Feldman
    • Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Patrick Bruch.
    ISBN
    • 0791455491
    • 9780791455494
    • 0791455505 ((pbk.))
    • 9780791455500 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2002191119
    OCLC
    50866953
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