College Composition and Communication, Vol. 50, No. 1, September 1998

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• Composition’s Imagined Geographies: The Politics of Space in the Frontier, City, and Cyberspace

  Nedra Reynolds

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  Abstract: My purpose here is to [use] concepts from postmodern geography to explore how spaces and places are socially produced through discourse and how these constructed spaces can then deny their connections to material reality or mask material conditions. (Reynolds 13-14).

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• Race: The Absent Presence in Composition Studies

  Catherine Prendergast

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  Abstract: What composition studies can take from critical race theory is an awareness that if we are to understand the mechanisms (like racism) that prevent some students from being heard, we need to recognize that our rhetoric is one which continually inscribes our students as foreigners. (Prendergast 51).

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• Directed Self-Placement: An Attitude of Orientation

  Daniel J. Royer and Roger Gilles

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  Abstract: If proper placement is a matter of guiding students into the course that is best suited to their educational background and current writing ability, directed self-placement may be the most valid procedure we can use. (Royer and Gilles 69-70).

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• The Researcher as Missionary: Problems with Rhetoric and Reform in the Disciplines

  Judy Segal, Anthony Paré, Doug Brent, and Douglas Vipond

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  Abstract: In short, we explore here the general question of why we might want to turn the people we study into audiences for our work, and then the more particular questions of how we might do so usefully and without adopting the colonial, self-righteous attitude evoked by our title. (Segal, et. al 73).

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• Call Me Horatio: Negotiating Between Cognition and Affect in Composition

  Richard Fulkerson

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  Abstract: We have here four books, a sort of mini-groundswell, dealing in different ways with "affective issues" in composition, to use McLeod's relatively focused term, or with "the domain beyond the cognitive," to use the more expansive phrasing of Brand and Graves. (Fulkerson 101).

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• History as Complex Storytelling

  Kathleen A. Welsch

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  Abstract: History is about storytelling. And like any good narrative invested in recounting tales of forebearers, its aim is not only to create an image of the past but a way of understanding what we see. . . It allows us to place ourselves as participants in an historical tradition, parts of which we wish to claim and others which we would prefer to distance ourselves from. (Welsch 116).

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• From the Editor

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• CCCC News

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• Recent Books

• CCC Calls

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• SPECIAL SECTION: Forum: Newsletter of the Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Special Interest Group

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• Letters/Interchanges: The Job Market and Graduate Programs in Composition

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