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"Teaching the [Other] Controversy" in the First-Year Writing Classroom
"[C]onflict has to mean paralysis only as long as we fail to take positive advantage of it." (Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars 5)
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“We anthologize, we assign, and we advocate reading of essays from multiple raced, classed, and gendered positions, presenting to our students a veritable cornucopia of multicultural mirrors.” (Barbara Schneider, "Uncommon Ground" 201)
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"Defined generally as a trope for interpretive invention, rhetorical listening signifies a stance of openness that a person may choose to assume in relation to any person, text, or culture." (Krista Ratcliffe, Rhetorical Listening 1)
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"As teachers, we need to think about what it means to be an audience rather than just be a teacher, critic, assessor, or editor. If our only response is to tell students what's strong, what's weak, and how to improve (diagnosis, assessment, and advice), we actually undermine their sense of writing as a social act." (Peter Elbow, "An Argument for Ignoring Audience" 65)
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"There is a satirical and parodying act of fulfilling certain mainstream conventions without total involvement. There is an appropriative function of finding spaces within the dominant conventions to insert one's own voice and preferred conventions." (A. Suresh Canagarajah, "Toward a Writing Pedagogy of Shuttling between Languages" 600)
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"Like the 'facts' promulgated in textbooks and classroom materials in other disciplines, the facts of composition, once they make their way out in a system of useful activity, will be translated, simplified, commodified." (David Russell, "Activity Theory and Process Approaches" 88)
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"Whether we realize it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, we take part in this struggle [between and across diverse standardized englishes and their Othered, peripheralized englishes] through every decision we make on which english to use and how to use it." (Min-Zhan Lu, "An Essay on the Work of Composition" 24)
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