Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

Author:   Spencer Schaffner
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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Pages:   144
Publication Date:   30 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Spencer Schaffner
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Weight:   0.220kg
ISBN:  

9780817359553


ISBN 10:   0817359559
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   30 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. """"I Will Not Chew Gum in Class"""": Punishing Children with Writing Chapter 2. Shame Parades Chapter 3. Writing on the Wasted Chapter 4. Forced Tattooing Chapter 5. Writing, Self-Reflection, and Justice Conclusion: Seeing Writing in a Dim Light Notes Works Cited Index"

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This book's focus on the 'darker' side of writing is as intriguing as it is illuminating. Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Schaffner's book finds that the beliefs that underlie generative approaches to writing are the very ones that underlie its use of writing as punishment. --Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation Asking, at core, if our writing inside and outside the classroom must advance erudition, Writing as Punishment chronicles how that script has been perverted to argue that 'writing is a viable tool for disciplining, controlling, brainwashing, shaming, demeaning, subjugating, and humiliating others.' This book more than proves its points. The writing is fantastically crisp; the thesis sound (and soundly provocative). However queasy-making, Schaffner's individual case studies are each perfectly selected. His conclusions are, to say the least, wickedly inspired. --Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture


Asking, at core, if our writing inside and outside the classroom must advance erudition, Writing as Punishment chronicles how that script has been perverted to argue that 'writing is a viable tool for disciplining, controlling, brainwashing, shaming, demeaning, subjugating, and humiliating others.' This book more than proves its points. The writing is fantastically crisp; the thesis sound (and soundly provocative). However queasy-making, Schaffner's individual case studies are each perfectly selected. His conclusions are, to say the least, wickedly inspired. - Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture This book's focus on the 'darker' side of writing is as intriguing as it is illuminating. Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Schaffner's book finds that the beliefs that underlie generative approaches to writing are the very ones that underlie its use of writing as punishment. - Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation


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Spencer Schaffner is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of Binocular Vision: The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides. His work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Composition Studies; and Discourse and Society.

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