College Composition and Communication, Vol. 58, No. 3, February 2007

Table of Contents

• Imprints

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  Abstract: Imprints fromthe May 1965 inside and outside back covers of CCC

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• From the Editor

  Deborah H. Holdstein

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  Abstract: “Dogma and Nonsense”: A Reconsideration

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• There Goes the Neighborhood: Hip Hop Creepin' on a Come Up at the U

  Kermit E. Campbell

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  Abstract: This article offers a critical perspective on the default mode of freshman composition instruction, that is, its traditionally middle-class and white racial orientation. Although middle-classness and whiteness have been topics of critical interest among compositionists in recent years, perhaps the most effective challenge to this hegemony in the classroom is not in our textbooks or critical discourse but in what many of our students already consume, the ghettocentricity expressed in the music of rappers like Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Eminem.

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• "If Knowledge Is Power, You're About to Become Very Powerful": Literacy and Labor Market Intermediaries in Postindustrial America

  Michael Pennell

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  Abstract: This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors.

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• Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines

  Michael Carter

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  Abstract: One way of helping faculty understand the integral role of writing in their various disciplines is to present disciplines as ways of doing, which links ways of knowing and writing in the disciplines. Ways of doing identified by faculty are used to describe broader generic and disciplinary structures, metagenres, and metadisciplines.

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• Toward a Civic Rhetoric for Technologically and Scientifically Complex Places: Invention, Performance, and Participation

  W. Michele Simmons and Jeffrey T. Grabill

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  Abstract: The spaces in which public deliberation most often takes place are institutionally, technologically, and scientifically complex. In this article, we argue that in order to participate, citizens must be able to invent valued knowledge. This invention requires using complex information technologies to access, assemble, and analyze information in order to produce the professional and technical performances expected in contemporary civic forums. We argue for a civic rhetoric that expands to research the complicated nature of interface technologies, the inventional practices of citizens as they use these technologies, and the pedagogical approaches to encourage the type of collaborative and coordinated work these invention strategies require.

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• INTERCHANGES: Responses to Phillip P. Marzluf, "Diversity Writing: Natural Languages, Authentic Voices"

  Margaret Himley; Christine R. Farris; Phillip P. Marzluf

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  Abstract: Margaret Himley and Christine Farris respond to Phillip Marzluf ’s article, “Diversity Writing: Natural Languages, Authentic Voices,” in the February 2006 issue of CCC. Phillip Marzluf responds to them, with his original article readily available through the CCC Online Archive (formerly CCC Online): http://inventio.us/ccc.

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• REVIEW ESSAY: Learning to Read as Continuing Education

  David A. Jolliffe

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• REVIEW ESSAY: Reflections on the Future of Rhetorical Education

  James J. Sosnoski

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• CCC Guidelines for Writers

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• CCCC News

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• Announcements and Calls

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