College Composition and Communication, Vol. 58, No. 4, June 2007

Table of Contents

• Imprints From the May 1957 Issue of CCC

  Donald Murray

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  Abstract: The Impending Demise of English Zero, or Sub-Freshman English

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• Donald Murray: An Appreciation

  Lad Tobin

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• From the Editor

  Deborah H. Holdstein

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• Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions:

  Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle

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  Abstract: In this article we propose, theorize, demonstrate, and report early results from a course that approaches first-year composition as introduction to Writing Studies. This pedagogy explicitly recognizes the impossibility of teaching a universal academic discourse and rejects that as a goal for first-year composition. It seeks instead to improve students’ understanding of writing, rhetoric, language, and literacy in a course that is topically oriented to reading and writing as scholarly inquiry and that encourages more realistic conceptions of writing.

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• The Erasure of Language

  Susan Peck MacDonald

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  Abstract: This article traces a decline in CCCC sessions on language along with a shift toward more reductive definitions. It analyzes early CCCC treatment of language issues, the Students’ Right document, changes in demographics and linguistics, and shifts within English departments that have left us overdue for professional reexamination of our role as teachers of language.

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• Inscribing the World: Lessons from an Oral History Project in Brooklyn

  Deborah Mutnick

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  Abstract: This essay reports on a university-school oral history project at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. It theorizes the dialectic of place and history as expressed in the voices of the school community and goes on to suggest some tenets for a public sphere pedagogy rooted in material rhetoric and economic geography.

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• “Anti-American Studies” in the Deep South:

  M. Karen Powers and Catherine Chaput

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  Abstract: Using Frederic Jameson, we outline concentric circles of the political unconscious structuring debates about academic freedom at the national and state levels. By drawing parallels between the World War I university and the contemporary university, we suggest that such circles function historically, always bearing traces of an earlier time. To illustrate implications at one local site, we discuss the “Anti-American Studies” fliers repeatedly posted in our department and end by emphasizing the importance of using critical writing pedagogies to encourage opportunities for dissenting rhetorics.

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• What Are English Majors For?

  Thomas P. Miller and Brian Jackson

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• What Calls for Naming? A Meditation on Meaning in Technical, Professional, and Scientific Communication Programs

  Robert Johnson

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• People, Places, and Writing

  Philip Eubanks

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• The Layerings of Silences

  Victor Villanueva

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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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• Index to Volume 58

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