Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The ethos of academic discourse
  • Thomas Kuhn, scientism, and English studies
  • "Inherent" ideology, "universal" history, "empirical" evidence, and "context-free" writing : some problems in E.D. Hirsch's The philosophy of composition / coauthored with Bruce Herzberg
  • Cognition, convention, and certainty : what we need to know about writing
  • College composition : initiation into the academic discourse community
  • Academic discourse and critical consciousness : an application of Paulo Freire
  • William Perry and liberal education
  • What happens when basic writers come to college?
  • Composing processes : an overview
  • Foundationalism and anti-foundationalism in composition studies
  • What is a discourse community?
  • Arguing about literacy
  • Beyond anti-foundationalism to rhetorical authority : problems defining "cultural literacy."