College Composition and Communication, Vol. 51, No. 3, February 2000

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• Traditions and Professionalization: Reconceiving Work in Composition

  Bruce Horner

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  Abstract: The derogation of the “traditional” in the discourse of academic professionalism in composition studies overlooks practices within tradition that may be counter or alternative to the hegemonic. Aspects of the Amherst College “tradition” of English 1–2 illustrate, in idealized form, alternative practices drawing from residual elements of dominant culture.

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• More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation

  Ellen Barton

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  Abstract: Negative argumentation about methodological approaches threatens to limit the field of composition: it exacerbates the tension concerning the place and value of empirical studies in research; it potentially limits the field’s ability to ask certain kinds of research questions; and it risks impoverishing the methodological education offered to new practitioners in the field.

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• "Building a Mystery": Alternative Research Writing and the Academic Act of Seeking

  Robert Davis and Mark Shadle

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  Abstract: Alternative forms of research writing that displace those of modernism are unfolded, ending with “multi-writing,” which incorporates multiple genres, disciplines, cultures, and media to syncretically gather post/modern forms. Such alternatives represent a shift in academic values toward a more exploratory inquiry that honors mystery.

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• Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?

  Scott Richard Lyons

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  Abstract: After years of colonization, oppression, and resistance, American Indians are making clear what they want from the heretofore compromised technology of writing. Rhetorical sovereignty, a people’s control of its meaning, is found in sites legal, aesthetic, and pedagogical, and composition studies can both contribute to and learn from this work.

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• In Memoriam: James L. Kinneavy

  Lester Faigley

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• Responses to "After Wyoming: Labor Practices in Two University Writing Programs

  Francis J. Sullivan and Susan Wells; Nancy Morrow, Amanda Godley and Jennifer Trainor

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• Remediation Phase-Out at CUNY: The "Equity versus Excellence" Controversy

  Barbara Gleason

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• In Brief: Use Your Fair Use: Strategies toward Action

  CCCC Caucus on Intellectual Property

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• REVIEWS

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• A Teaching Subject: Composition since 1966

  Joseph Harris

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• From the Editor

  Marilyn M. Cooper

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• CCC Guildelines for Writers

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• CCCC News, Announcements, and Calls

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