Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Imagining the Work of Composition
Prologue: Toward an Interpretive Pedagogy
Learning the Work of Composition
Inventing and Reinventing the Discipline of Composition
Part Two: Introducing English in America: Education as Conversion and Conservation in Colonial Settings
Prologue
Figuring Pocahontas
Composing the Other: Underwriting Colonial Education
Educating the Other
Epilogue to Part Two
Part Three: The Contexts and Genres of the Intellectual Work of Composition
Reading/Writing in the Classroom and the Profession
Genre as a Social Institution
Academic and Student Genres: Toward a Poetics of Composition
Part Four: Composition’s Work with the Disciplines
Genre Theory, Academic Discourse, and Writing within Disciplines
Working with Faculty: Disciplinary Writing Seminars as Interdisciplinary Work
Engaging Intellectual Work: The Role of Faculty in Writing Program Teaching and Assessment
Part Five. Correspondences
The Impolitics of Letters: Undoing Critical Faculties
A Letter to Maggie
Afterword
Notes
References
Index