I-Writing: The Politics and Practice of Teaching First-Person Writing

by Karen Surman Paley and Associate Professor Karen Surman Paley PhD

In this ethnographic study of the teaching of writing, Karen Surman Paley reveals the social significance of first-person writing and the limitations of a popular taxonomy of composition studies. Paley looks critically at the way social constructionists have created an "Other" in the field of composition studies and named it "expressivist."

Paley demonstrates the complexity of approaches to teaching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323516
• ISBN13: 9780809323517
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"