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This book engages the formative influence on composition studies of the landmark 1974 """"Students' Right"""" to Their Own Language resolution. Combining elements of documentary history and a collection of original scholarship, The Hope and the Legacy enables current professional hopes for the teaching of writing to be invigorated and informed by the lessons available within the legacy of debate over issues raised by """"Students' Right."""" These include issues of racial identity and language diversity, social justice and literacy education, language policies and teacher attitudes, and classroom practices and the purposes of schooling in a pluralistic democracy As a collection it provides a resource for historically contextualized and theoretically informed engagements with the central tensions facing teachers students, and scholars in the field. The essays are grouped into four sections: The Context of Students Right contains five previously published essays that characterize the research climate that generated the resolution. The Immediate Response contains four essays that highlight the range of responses to the statement. The Second Wave of Reflection and Engagement demonstrates major developments within composition research and theory that were framed as extensions of """"Students' Right"""" and the issues it raised. The Lasting Legacy contains essays that address contemporary issues in composition studies through the lens of the """"Students' Right"""" statement. Taken together, the essays track the impact of the """"Students' Right"""" resolution through the past and into the future, enriching discussions of how research and practice in composition studies can best address issues of racial identity, writing instruction, and the purposes of schooling.

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Author:   Richard Marback ,  Patrick Bruch
Publisher:   Hampton Press
Imprint:   Hampton Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781572735859

ISBN 10:   1572735856
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Critical Hope, Students Right, and the Work of Composition Studies, Patrick Bruch and Richard Marback. The Context Of Students Right To Their Own Language. The English Language is My Enemy (1967), Ossie Davis. The Politics of Language (1970), Wayne'O. Neil. The Ethno-Linguistic Approach to Speech-Language Learning (1970), Grace S. Holt. Bi-Dialectalism is not the Linguistics of White Supremacy: Sense versus Sensibilities (1971), Melvin J. Hoffman. The Shuffling Speech of Slavery: Black English (1972), J. Mitchell Morse. Initial Responses. A Contemporary Dilemma: The Question of Standard English (1974), William Pixton. No One Has a Right to His Own Language (1976), Allen Smith. The Students Right to His Own Language: A Viable Model or Empty Rhetoric (1977), Jesse L'Colquit. The Students Right to Their Own Language: A Dialogue (1983), Stephen N. Tchudi and Susan J. Tchudi. The Second Wave Of Reflection And Engagement. Toward Educational Linguistics for the First World (1979), Geneva Smitherman. The Politics of Composition (1979), John Rouse. The Politics of Composition. A Reply to John Rouse (1980), Gerald Graff. Writing Away From Fear. Mine Shaughnessy and the Uses of Authority (1980), Michael Allen. A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English (1983), Judith P. Nembhard. The Lasting Legacy. Nothing New Under the Sun: The Collective Responsibility of the Students Right Resolution, Stephen Parks. Negotiating the Right to Write, Amy Hawkins. Students Rights, English-Only and Re-Imagining the Politics of Language, Bruce Horner. Dialect and the Discourse of Evaluation, Barbara Schneider Breaking the Silenced Dialogue, Patrick Bruch. Implementing Students Right to Their Own Language: Language Awareness in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Michael Pennell. The Global Ground for Language Rights, Richard Marback. Author Index, Subject Index.

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