Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean

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Edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette *Winner of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Outstanding Book Award, 12 May 2021. See https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/oba * Winner of the Modern Language Association's Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize (14 Dec. 2020). Read MLA's Press Release (PDF). Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-111-1 (paperback, $36); 978-1-64317-112-8 (hardcover, $75); 978-1-64317-113-5 (PDF, $19.99) © 2019 by Parlor Press, with bibliography and index. 381 pages. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Creole Composition is a collection featuring essays by scholars and teacher-researchers working with students in/from the Anglophone Caribbean. Arising from a need to define what writing instruction in the Caribbean means, Creole Composition expands the existing body of research literature about the teaching of writing at the postsecondary level in the Caribbean region. To this end, it speaks to critical disciplinary conversations of rhetoric and composition and academic literacies while addressing specific issues with teaching academic writing to Anglophone Caribbean students. It features chapters addressing language, approaches to teaching, assessing writing, administration, and research in postsecondary education as well as professionalization of writing instructors in the region. Some chapters reflect traditional Caribbean attitudes to postsecondary writing instruction; other chapters seek to reform these traditional practices. Some chapters’ interventions emerge from discussions in writing studies while other chapters reflect their authors’ primary training in other fields, such as applied linguistics, education, and literary studies. Additionally, the chapters use a variety of styles and methods, ranging from highly personal reflective essays to theoreti