Pedagogy Oct 2019

Representations of Students in Composition Scholarship

Kristine Johnson

Abstract

Using methods from corpus linguistics, the author argues that the practice of making knowledge in composition studies is bound with the discursive act of representing students. Students are represented both in ways that align with disciplinary knowledge about writing and in ways that align with major intellectual shifts in composition studies.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2019-10-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-7615383
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multilingual writers

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