College Composition and Communication, Vol. 55, No. 3, February 2004

Table of Contents

• In Memoriam Wendy Bishop: 1953–2003

  Victor Villanueva

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  Abstract: Wendy Bishop. I never knew she was Wendy Sue. She died—at 50. Complications concerning leukemia.

• In Memoriam Walter J. Ong, SJ: 1912–2003

  Thomas J. Farrell

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  Abstract: After a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease, Walter J. Ong, SJ, died from pneumonia on 12 August 2003.

• From the Editor

  Marilyn M. Cooper

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  Abstract: The moment when I first really identified with CCCC, when I first knew that this was an association I wanted to be part of and contribute to, was during David Bartholomae’s chair’s address in 1988. He was speaking of the maturation of composition as a discipline.

  Keywords: College

• Facing (Up To) ‘The Stranger’ in Community Service Learning

  Margaret Himley

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  Abstract: This essay turns to feminist ethnography and postcolonial theory to address how the figure of “the stranger” haunts the project of community service learning. By explicating the immediate and broader relations of power that structure these “strange(r) encounters,” we are more likely to produce the kind of agitated pedagogy that creates opportunities for progressive practices and effects.

  Keywords: College

• Critical Discourse Analysis and Composition Studies: A Study of Presidential Discourse and Campus Discord

  Pegeen Reichert Powell

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  Abstract: In this article, I argue that critical discourse analysis (CDA) can complement and extend existing critical and radical writing pedagogies; CDA provides the theoretical and methodological context that can articulate explicitly the relationship between language practices and politics. I use CDA to analyze texts that circulated on the campus of Miami University, Ohio, surrounding a conflict that exacerbated ongoing disputes about diversity, access, and standards, and I discuss how CDA might inform composition pedagogy.

• Reimagining the Functional Side of Computer Literacy

  Stuart A. Selber

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  Abstract: Although computer literacy amounts to a complex set of interconnected capacities, teachers of writing and communication have tended to ignore functional issues, which are crucial to many aspects of online work. This essay reimagines the functional side of computer literacy, arguing for an approach that is both effective and professionally responsible.

  Keywords: Literacy, College

• A New Visibility: An Argument for Alternative Assistance Writing Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities

  Kimber Barber-Fendley and Chris Hamel

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  Abstract: We argue against the metaphor of the “level playing field” and its natural coercive power; in so doing, we call for an end to the invisibility that the debate over accommodations has imposed on learning disabilities in the past decade. A literature review of LD in composition shows how this invisibility has manifested itself in our field through limited professional discussion of LD. In response, we propose not a level playing field but a new playing field altogether, a visible one that actively promotes alternative assistance for student writers with LD in first-year composition programs. We seek to show how the LD and composition fields could create a powerful partnership by serving students with LD through the principle of the liberal theory of distributive justice.

  Keywords: Writing, College

• Towards an Ethics of Answerability: Reconsidering Dialogism in Sociocultural Literacy Research

  Mary Juzwik

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  Abstract: This essay responds to the problem that sociocultural literacy research has failed to adequately theorize individual literacy learners as moral agents with the capacity to produce harm or good to themselves and others. Building from the rhetorical construct of dialogism, this inquiry explores how the early ethical thought of Mikhail Bakhtin can contribute an “ethics of answerability” to sociocultural literacy studies.

  Keywords: Literacy, College

• INTERCHANGES: A Response to “Point Counterpoint: Teaching Punctuation as Information Management”

  John Dawkins; Nancy Mann

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  Keywords: College

• Review: African American Literacies by Elaine Richardson

  David G. Holmes

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  Keywords: College

• REVIEWS (Re)Articulating Assessment: Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning by Brian Huot

  Paul Kameen

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  Keywords: College

• REVIEWS: Misunderstanding the Assignment: Teenage Students, College Writing, and the Pains of Growth

  Anna H. Clark

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  Keywords: College

• REVIEWS: A Geopolitics of Academic Writing

  Tom Fox

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  Keywords: College

• Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms

  Peter Schiff

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