College Composition and Communication Jun 2001

School Sucks

T. R. Johnson

Abstract

Occasioned by the recent epidemic of violence in schools and the author’s memory of violent schoolyard rhymes, this essay explores the ways students experience contemporary writing pedagogy. To do so, the essay ranges from rhetoric’s historical discussion of the pleasures of writing to composition’s more recent interest in academic professionalism to Gilles Deleuze’s theory of masochism to the problem of teaching and learning in a consumer culture.

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College Composition and Communication
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2001-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20011436
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rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy teacher development
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