College Composition and Communication, Vol. 52, No. 2, December 2000

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• Composition and the Circulation of Writing

  John Trimbur

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  Abstract: Composition has neglected the circulation of writing by figuring classroom life as a middle-class family drama. Cultural studies approaches to teaching writing have sought, with mixed success, to transcend this domestic space. I draw on Marx’s Grundrisse for a conceptual model of how circulation materializes contradictory social relations and how the contradictions between exchange value and use value might be taken up in writing classrooms to expand public forums and popular participation in civic life.

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• “Everybody Has Their Own Ideas”: Responding to Cliché in Student Writing

  Dawn Skorczewski

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  Abstract: Writing instructors often identify clichés as the weakest spots in student writing, but looking at students’ uses of cliché in context can teach us about their struggles to fashion new knowledge from what they already believe to be true. Most importantly, writing instructors who examine their responses to cliché (or any other “undesirable” aspect of student writing) can learn about the ways in which their pedagogical practices can deafen them to what students are trying to say.

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• Interrogating the Monologue: Making Whiteness Visible

  Ian Marshall and Wendy Ryden

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  Abstract: The authors attempt to confront the construction of “whiteness” as a silent but potent epistemology that pervades writing instruction and contributes to racism within academic institutions. Pedagogical practices as well as university policies are discussed, focusing particularly on the subject positions of “black” and “white” for both students and instructors.

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• Literacy, Identity, Imagination, Flight

  Keith Gilyard

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  Abstract: This article examines issues of literacy and identity relative to the development of a critical pedagogy and a critical democracy. An earlier version was delivered as the Chair’s Address at the Fifty-first Annual CCCC Convention on April 13, 2000.

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• From the Editor

  Marilyn M. Cooper

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• Responses to "Traditions and Professionalization: Reconceiving Work in Composition"

  Gwen Gorzelsky; Alan W. France, William B. Lalicker, and Chris Teutsch; Bruce Horner

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• Response to "More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation"

  Seth Kahn; Ellen Barton

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• REVIEWS

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