College Composition and Communication, Vol. 56, No. 1, September 2004

Table of Contents

• In Memoriam: Stephen P. Witte

  Rich Haswell, with Deborah Brandt and Mike Rose

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  Abstract: Steve Witte may be first remembered for Written Communication, which he edited from its beginning in 1984.

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• From the Editor

  Marilyn M. Cooper

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• An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism

  Min-Zhan Lu

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  Abstract: This is an attempt to define what being a responsible and responsive user of English might mean in a world ordered by global capital, a world where all forms of intra- and international exchanges in all areas of life are increasingly under pressure to involve English. Turning to recent work in linguistics and education, I pose a set of alternative assumptions that might help us develop more responsible and responsive approaches to the relation between English and its users (both those labeled Native-Speaking, White or Middle Class, and those Othered by these labels), the language needs and purposes of individual users of English, and the relation between the work we do and the work done by users of English across the world. I argue that these assumptions can help us compose English against the grain of all systems and relations of injustice.

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• An "Immensely Simplified Task": Form in Modern Composition-Rhetoric

  Judith Goleman

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  Abstract: Using historical and contemporary documents, including student texts, this article examines why and how both novice and experienced writing teachers, including the author, continue to struggle with tacit allegiances to traditional forms while trying to facilitate dialectical writing in their classrooms.

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• Reading Student Writing with Anthropologists: Stance and Judgment in College Writing

  Mary Soliday

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  Abstract: This article describes how readers from a graduate program in anthropology evaluated student writing in a general education course. Readers voiced the concerns of their discipline when they focused on the stance writers assumed and how they made value judgments.

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• "Not Too Late to Take the Sanitation Test": Notes of a Non-Gifted Academic from the Working Class

  David Borkowski

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  Abstract: Working-class academic narratives reveal a number of common themes, like dual estrangement and internalized class conflict. A less popularized motif is the bookish child who is catapulted out of her working-class origins. But some working-class academics, like myself, were not academically ambitious as children. I am a nontraditional working-class academic, and my distance from narratives of “gifted” ascent may actuallybring me closer to my students.

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• The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year

  Nancy Sommers and Laura Saltz

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  Abstract: Why do some students prosper as college writers, moving forward with their writing, while others lose interest? In this essay we explore some of the paradoxes of writing development by focusing on the central role the freshman year plays in this development. We argue that students who make the greatest gains as writers throughout college (1) initially accept their status as novices and (2) see in writing a larger purpose than fulfilling an assignment. Based on the evidence of our longitudinal study, we conclude that the story of the freshman year is not one of dramatic changes on paper; it is the story of changes within the writers themselves.

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• INTERCHANGES: Response to "Accepting the Roles Created for Us: The Ethics of Reciprocity"

  Ellen Cushman; Katrina M. Powell and Pamela Takayoshi

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• REVIEWS: Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook, edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau

  Danielle Nicole DeVoss

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• REVIEWS: Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition by James F. Slevin

  Anne Beaufort

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• Language Policies in Education: Critical Issues, edited by James Tollefson

  Brian Lynch

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• CCCC News

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• Announcements and Calls

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