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Peer reviewedHeilker, Paul – Writing on the Edge, 1992
Maintains that composition teachers should urge students to combine linear, objective, abstract masculine tradition with its opposing circular, sensual, subjective, contextual, committed discourse of femininity. Advocates doing so by using the essay to explore a contemporary controversial issue. (SR)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Discourse Modes, Higher Education, Sex Stereotypes
Peer reviewedHorner, Bruce – Writing on the Edge, 1995
Draws on Gerald Graff's work on conflicts over canonicity, pedagogy, and academic institutional structures to investigate ways of handling teacher-student tension over the use of popular songs in the classroom. Discusses two versions of a writing assignment dealing with such tension and what each assignment implies about the course's underlying…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Music, Poetry, Popular Culture
Peer reviewedMay, Tom – Writing on the Edge, 1995
Contains an imaginary writing assignment and an imaginary student's response to it that critiques it and the conception of writing it appears to be predicated upon. (TB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Expressive Language, Higher Education, Teacher Student Relationship
