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Anne Ruggles Gere; Anne Curzan; J. W. Hammond; Sarah Hughes; Ruth Li; Andrew Moos; Kendon Smith; Kathryn Van Zanen; Kelly L. Wheeler; Crystal J. Zanders – College Composition and Communication, 2021
Critical language awareness offers one approach to communal "justicing," an iterative and collective process that can address inequities in the disciplinary infrastructure of Writing Studies. We demonstrate justicing in the field's pasts, policies, and publications; offer a model of communal revision; and invite readers to become agents…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Justice
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Kinloch, Valerie Felita – College Composition and Communication, 2005
The implications of the "Students' Right to Their Own Language" resolution on classroom teaching and practices point to a continual need to reevaluate how communicative actions--linguistic diversities--of students are central aspects of the work within composition courses. This article revisits the historical significance and pedagogical value of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Writing (Composition)
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Marzluf, Phillip P. – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Though diversity serves as a valuable source for rhetorical inquiry, expressivist instructors who privilege diversity writing may also overemphasize the essential authenticity of their students' vernaculars. This romantic and salvationist impulse reveals the troubling implications of eighteenth-century Natural Language Theory and may,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Linguistic Performance, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory