Alt Dis Alternative Discourses and the Academy

Name: Alt Dis Alternative Discourses and the Academy
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ISBN: 9780867095166

ISBN-10: 0867095164

ISBN-13: 9780867095166

Edition: 2002

Authors: Patricia Bizzell, Chris Schroeder, Helen Fox

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Patricia Bizzell has argued that teachers of composition, if they are going to prepare students for success in other classrooms and other contexts, cannot afford to ignore alternative forms of discourse that are appearing now in the academy. This edited collection of original essays both discusses and at times exemplifies extraordinary examples of just such alternativesdiscourses that embody new and different forms of intellectual work Together, their writings pose and answer some intriguing questions about the: use of nonstandard discourse to illustrate unconventional forms of intellectual work role of nonstandard discourse in scholarship from disciplines across the curriculum…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 3/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.638

Helen Fox is on the faculty of the Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan where she heads the Graduate Student Writing Project. She is the author of When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in University Classrooms (2001) and Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994).



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