College Composition and Communication Jun 2020

What Else Do We Know? Translingualism and the History of SRTOL as Threshold Concepts in Our Field

Tessa Brown

Abstract

This article uses storytelling, rhetorical analysis, and critical historicization to critique the color-blindness of the writing studies movement’s two key texts, Elizabeth Wardle and Douglas Down’sWriting about Writingreader and Linda Adler-Kassner and Wardle’s edited collectionNaming What We Know. Juxtaposing the writing studies movement with contemporary translingual and hip-hop theory as well as the history of the Students’ Right to Their Own language resolution and CUNY’s Open Admissions period, the author argues that the writing studies movement’s pivot toward neoliberalizing higher education excludes multilingual and diverse writers from its pedagogical audience as well as its conception of writing expertise. The author calls for a broader conception of writing studies that can theorize literacy in all its complex global instantiations.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2020-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202030726
Open Access
Closed
Topics
threshold concepts translingualism multilingual writers

Citation Context

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