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The Politics of Writing Studies: Reinventing Our Universities from Below

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A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American higher education. Not only does this enable the exploitation of contingent faculty, but it also puts writing studies--a field that inherently challenges many institutional hierarchies--in a debased institutional position and ...

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The Politics of Writing Studies: Reinventing Our Universities from Below 2017, Utah State University Press

ISBN-13: 9781607325833

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