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Goleman investigates the relationship between critical theory and composition pedagogy in extensive and methodical ways. The philosophical insights of Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, and Mikhail Bakhtin are transformed into methodologies for critical work in composition. The book rests on the premise that critical approaches to the relationship between language and ideology should not be the preserve of teachers alone, but should be seen as ways of writing and analyzing language that students can master. Critical theory provides students with an understanding of language and self, truth and knowledge that allows for intellectual insight and fluency among the discourses of their multileveled, often complex and conflict-ridden lives.

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Working Theory is a very impressive piece of work. As a profession, we don't know how to read student essays, for example, to make them interesting, notable, complex - even though they represent a massive cultural project, the organized production of hundreds of thousands of readers and writers, all in the name of English. In this context, Goleman's book will be a powerful and useful intervention in Composition Studies. Working Theory is an impressive and, for its use of classroom materials, original work. -David Bartholomae University of Pittsburgh

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JUDITH GOLEMAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she directs the Freshman English Program and the Graduate Intern Program in composition.

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