Pedagogy Jan 2009

Suburban Studies and College Writing

Thomas Hothem

Abstract

An ecocompositional turn to suburban studies can help unlock the wider promise of environmentally oriented composition curricula by encouraging student writers to reevaluate the language in which they describe their world. As the embodiment of modern domesticity, suburban life dramatizes the fundamental role of place in the construction of writers' subjectivity.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2009-01-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-2008-016
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing across the curriculum multimodality body and rhetoric

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (3)

  1. Shepley (2022)
    Spatial Knowledge Making from Writing about Appalachia outside Appalachia
    Pedagogy
  2. Heiman (2014)
    “Odd Topics” And Open Minds
    Pedagogy
  3. Holberg et al. (2010)
    Editors' Introduction
    Pedagogy

Cites in this index (2)

  1. Ball et al. (2006)
    Place-Based Pedagogy for the Arts and Humanities
    Pedagogy
  2. Killingsworth (2005)
    From Environmental Rhetoric to Ecocomposition and Ecopoetics: Finding a Place f…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
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  2. Dobrin, Sidney I., and Christian R. Weisser. 2002. Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition. Albany: State Un…
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