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Find out how ""mixed"" forms of discourse are gaining currency in the academy, (PDF, 108KB); Patricia Bizzell has argued that teachers of composition, if they are going to prepare students for success in other classrooms and other contexts, cannot afford to ignore alternative forms of discourse that are appearing now in the academy. This edited collection of original essays both discusses and at times exemplifies extraordinary examples of just such alternatives - discourses that embody new and different forms of intellectual work Together, their writings pose and answer some intriguing questions about the: use of nonstandard discourse to illustrate unconventional forms of intellectual work; role of nonstandard discourse in scholarship from disciplines across the curriculum; theoretical complexities of discourses defined as ""alternative,"" ""hybrid,"" ""mixed,"" or ""constructed"" relationships among communities, discourses, and linguistic standards; new conditions in composition classrooms made up of more students of English as a foreign language and students using non-standard dialects; teacher-student relationships within the context of alternative forms of intellectual work. Using unconventional structures and formats while acknowledging new modes and methods, this provocative volume argues eloquently for inclusion of a broader range of expression in academic writing.
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Author: Christopher Schroeder , Helen Fox , Patricia Bizzell
Publisher: Heinemann USA
Imprint: Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc US
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780867095166
ISBN 10: 0867095164
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 March 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock 
Table of Contents
"The Intellectual Work of ""Mixed"" Forms of Academic Discourse, Patricia Bizzell; Listening to ghosts: an alternative (non)argument, Malea Powell; Academic Discourses, or Small Boats in Big Seas, Jacqueline Jones Royster; ""New Life in This Dormant Creature"": Notes on Social Consciousness, Language and Learning in a College Classroom, Carmen Kynard; A Problem with Writing (about) ""Alternative"" Discourses, Sidney Dobrin; Being an Ally, Helen Fox; Contrastive Rhetoric: A Must in Cross-cultural Inquiries, Haixia Lan; Questioning ""Alternative"" Discourse: Reports from Across the Disciplines, Chris Thaiss & Terry Meyers Zawacki; So It Was This Beautiful Night, Belinda Kremer; Re-Clustering Traditional Academic Discourse: Alternating with Confucian Discourse, LuMing Mao Writing, Dialects, and the Culture of Literacy, Peter Elbow; Full (dis)Course Meal: Some Words on Hybrid/Alternative Discourses, Laura Lai Long; An Essay We're Learning to Read: Responding to Alt.Style, Michael Spooner; From the Inside Out, or From the Outside In, Depending, Christopher Schroeder; Alternative Discourse: A Synthesis, Paul Matsuda"
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Patricia Bizzell is Professor and Chair, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross. Among her publications are Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (1992) and The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, Fifth Edition (with Bruce Herzberg and Nedra Reynolds, 2001). Christopher Schroeder is a professor in the English Department at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of ReInventing the University: Literacies and Legitimacy in a Postmodern Academy (2001). Helen Fox is on the faculty of the Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan where she heads the Graduate Student Writing Project. She is the author of When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in University Classrooms (2001) and Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994).
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