ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy

by Patricia Bizzell, Patricia Bizzell, Helen Fox

Patricia Bizzell has argued that teachers of composition, if they are going to prepare students for success in other classrooms and other contexts, cannot afford to ignore alternative forms of discourse that are appearing now in the academy. This edited collection of original essays both discusses and at times exemplifies extraordinary examples of just such alternatives-discourses that embody new and different forms of intellectual work Together, their writings pose and answer some intriguing questions about

Genres: Academic

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2002

Reviews

[Lief]

This book is a series of articles dealing with alternative means of writing aside from the traditional academic essay. I don't agree with all of the articles, but they provide a lot of insights into alternatives for writing that I hope will begin to be more accepted by composition instructors and the composition field as a whole.

[Mary]

So far I'm loving these articles. Very interesting approaches to composition and how it should be taught. Different ways of thinking about language.