College Composition and Communication, Vol. 51, No. 4, June 2000

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• Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays

  Juanita Rodgers Comfort

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  Abstract: This article asserts that personal essays by black feminist writers such as June Jordan might be used to teach first-year and advanced student writers how to connect their personal and social identities in ways that will enhance the rhetorical impact of their writing while transcending mere “confession” or self-indulgence.

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• Evaluating Writing Programs in Real Time: The Politics of Remediation

  Barbara Gleason

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  Abstract: A case study of the evaluation of a three-year pilot project in mainstreaming basic writers at City College of New York suggests that the social and political contexts of a project need to be taken into account in the earliest stages of evaluation. This project’s complex evaluation report was virtually ignored by college administrators.

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• Building a Swan's Nest for Instruction in Rhetoric

  Nora Bacon

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  Abstract: When a composition teacher incorporated community-based writing assignments into her course, she found that the curriculum did not support students’ transitions to nonacademic settings. Her success in transforming the curriculum suggests that the writing classroom can function not only as a site for “general writing skills in-struction” but also for analysis of rhetorical variation.

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• Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change

  James E. Porter, Patricia Sullivan, Stuart Blythe, Jeffrey T. Grabill, and Libby Miles

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  Abstract: We offer institutional critique as an activist methodology for changing institutions. Since institutions are rhetorical entities, rhetoric can be deployed to change them. In its effort to counter oppressive institutional structures, the field of rhetoric and com-position has focused its attention chiefly on the composition classroom, on the de-partment of English, and on disciplinary forms of critique. Our focus shifts the scene of action and argument to professional writing and to public discourse, using spatial methods adapted from postmodern geography and critical theory.

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• Responses to "Composition History and the Harbrace College Handbook"

  Thomas V. Broadbent, John Bell, Winifred B. Horner, and Debra Hawhee

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• CCCC and MLA Renew Discussions on Staffing Introductory Courses

  Joseph Harris and John Lovas

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• REVIEWS

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• From the Editor

  Marilyn M. Cooper

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• Index, Volume 51, 1999-2000

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