Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World

by Nancy Welch and Nancy Welch

Book Overview

How can our students findor makespaces where their ideas and arguments can be heard? Living Room takes up this question in an age defined not only by YouTube and My Space but also the conversion of public streets to festival marketplaces, the creation of cordoned-off and tucked-away free speech zones, and the state sanctioning of ethnic profiling. In Living Room Nancy Welch traces the erosion of publicity rights to post-9/11 legislation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867095849
• ISBN13: 9780867095845
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary