Terms of Work for Composition

A cultural materialist critique of six key terms used in composition studies to define its work.Winner of the 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition In this book, Bruce Horner provides a cultural materialist critique of discourse on work in composition. Each chapter traces the ways in which one of the defining terms of composition-work, students, politics, academic, traditional, and writing-operates as a site for competing constructions of composition's identity.