Writing within and against the Academy: What Do We Really Want Our Students to Do? A Symposium.

Harris, Joseph; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ429553

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Publication Date: 1990

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Writing within and against the Academy: What Do We Really Want Our Students to Do? A Symposium.

Harris, Joseph; And Others

Journal of Education, v172 n1 p15-28 1990

This series of roundtable papers explores the attempt of writing instructors to empower students by teaching them both to write within the discourse of the academic community and to write critically against it, resisting its accepted forms of thought and discourse. (CJS)

Descriptors: Academic Education, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Educational Sociology, Hermeneutics, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Rhetorical Theory, Student Empowerment, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Influence, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Collected Works - Proceedings; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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