Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction

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Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997 - Education - 198 pages
In Getting Restless, Nancy Welch asks compositionists to rethink what they mean by "revision," urging them to examine long-held beliefs about teacher-student relations and writing practices. Drawing primarily on feminist and psychoanalytic theories, she considers how revision can be redefined as a process of disorientation: an act of restlessness with received meanings, familiar relationships, and disciplinary or generic boundaries, a practice of intervening in the meanings and identifications of one's text and one's life.

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Introduction
1
Getting Restless
7
Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction
15
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

Nancy Welch is the author/coeditor of the Boynton/Cook titles Living Room (2008), The Dissertation and the Discipline: Reinventing Composition Studies (2002), and Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction (1997). She is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where she teaches composition, rhetoric, literacy studies, and women's studies. She has also published a collection of short stories, The Road from Prosperity.