College English, Vol. 66, No. 5, May 2004

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• Drafting U.S. Literacy

  Deborah Brandt

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  Abstract: The author explores how World War II changed the rationale for mass literacy in the United States from a nineteenth-century moral imperative into a twentieth-century production imperative. She suggests that we are in a similar period of reevaluation today, and that, if the capacity to fuse older and newer ideologies is at its limit, the school may find itself running behind or even against the dominant cultural imperatives for literacy in a new world order.

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• Meaning Finds a Way: Chaos (Theory) and Composition

  Bonnie Lenore Kyburz

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  Abstract: The author suggests that if compositionists consider their work in the context of postmodern sciences such as chaos theory they may entertain the notion that order emerges from chaos in unpredictable yet comprehensible (albeit new and radical) ways. She offers the hope that such a notion may aid them in effectively resisting pressures to define themselves and their students, through practices such as retrogressive pedagogies and standardized testing, as the gatekeepers and practitioners of “order.”

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• Transforming Audiences for Oral Tradition: Child, Kittredge, Thompson, and Connections of Folklore and English Studies

  Jill Terry Rudy

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  Abstract: The author examines the careers of Francis James Child, first professor of English at Harvard, and his followers George Lyman Kittredge and Stith Thompson to show how these early professionals’ decisions regarding audience and the relationship of literary and folkloric studies to composition helped to establish issues and audiences in English studies. She suggests that recognition of lingering limitations from the discipline’s early days may enable academics to consider different choices today.

• REVIEW: Mind the Gap: Stepping Out with Caution in Assessment and Student Public Writing

  Beth Kalikoff

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  Abstract: Reviewed are:Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text, edited by Emily J. Isaacs and Phoebe Jackson; Re(Articulating) Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning, by Brian Huot; and What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing, by Bob Broad.

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• COMMENT AND RESPONSE: A Comment on Joseph Harris's "Revision as a Critical Practice"

  Jennifer Beech and William H. Thelin/Joseph Harris

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• COMMENT AND RESPONSE: Two Comments on Sharon O'Dair's "Class Work: Site of Egalitarian Activism or Site on Embourgeoisement?"

  Tim Mayers/LeannBertoncini/Sharon O'Dair

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

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