Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique

by Bruce Horner, John Trimbur (Foreword)

Winner of the 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition

In this book, Bruce Horner provides a cultural materialist critique of discourse on work in composition. Each chapter traces the ways in which one of the defining terms of composition--work, students, politics, academic, traditional, and writing--operates as a site for competing constructions of composition's identity.

308 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2000

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There are few better books of either the Marxist or the Composition persuasion, and this book manages to contribute significantly to both. There's a rough edge or two, but you can't agree with everybody all the time, I guess.