At a Mirror, Darkly: The Imagined Undergraduate Writers of Ten Novice Composition Instructors

College Composition and Communication Feb 2012

At a Mirror, Darkly: The Imagined Undergraduate Writers of Ten Novice Composition Instructors

Dylan B. Dryer

Abstract

While reading a series of undergraduate essay drafts, ten newly appointed graduate teaching assistants consistently projected their own anxieties about academic writing onto the authors of the papers, with two exceptions: the students were imagined neither to have the teachers’ compositional agency nor to feel their ambivalence about the academic writing conventions in question. Suggestions for repurposing the intellectual work of the TA-training practicum follow.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2012-02-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc201218445
Open Access: Closed
Topics: graduate education multilingual writers

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