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An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.
This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Detroit. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan visit the fascinating history of various urban universities to illustrate how specific writing programs and instructors have engaged in the changing missions and priorities of their institutions.
The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.
Foreword
Linda Flower
Introduction
Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan
PART I: Negotiating Identities
1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama
Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan
2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City
Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins
3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing
Krista Hiser
4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing
Paula Mathieu
5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community
Susan Swan
PART II: Composing Spaces
6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project
Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney
7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility
Van E. Hillard
8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies
Jeffrey T. Grabill
9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies
Richard Marback
PART III: Redefining Practices
10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University
David A. Jolliffe
11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"
Lynee Lewis Gaillet
12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education
Barbara Gleason
13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership
Ann M. Feldman
14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights Era
Patrick Bruch
List of Contributors
Index