Writing in Multicultural Settings (Research and Scholsarship in Composition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873525841 ISBN 13: 9780873525848

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 1997

Synopsis

The twenty essays and four responses (“cross-talks”) in this volume, the fifth in the Research and Scholarship in Composition series, confront the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today’s writing students. The contributors, who teach in classrooms and writing centers at a variety of private and public institutions, discuss their immersion in students’ discourses and cultures and balance descriptions of their teaching experiences with careful and critical reflection.

The volume begins and ends with sections examining the tensions and conflicts in the classroom; the two sections in between focus more specifically on texts and curricula and on teaching English as a second language. The cross-talk that concludes each section synthesizes and critiques the essays.

Writing in Multicultural Settings is essential, thought-provoking reading for college administrators, writing teachers, and scholars and students in composition studies.

About this title

About the Author

Severino is associate professor of rhetoric and director of the writing lab at the University of Iowa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873525841
• ISBN 13: 9780873525848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 381
• Editor: Severino Carol, Guerra Juan C., Butler Johnnella