City Comp

261 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h16min.
An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Detroit. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan visit the fascinating history of various urban universities to illustrate how specific writing programs and instructors have engaged in the changing missions and priorities of their institutions.The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.Foreword Linda Flower Introduction Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing Krista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing Paula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community Susan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility Van E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies Jeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies Richard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University David A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University" Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education Barbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership Ann M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights Era Patrick Bruch List of Contributors Index