264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume constitutes a unique contribution to the literature on literacy and culture in several respects. It links together aspects of social variation that have not often been thus juxtaposed: ethnicity/nationality, gender, and participant role relations. The unifying theme of this collection of papers is that all of these factors are aspects of writers' identities -- identities which are... Read more
Contents: D.L. Rubin, Introduction: Composing Social Identity. Part I:Composing Ethnolinguistic Identity. M.D. Linn, Stylistic Variation in Vernacular Black English and the Teaching of College Composition. R. Horowitz, Orality in Literacy: The Uses of Speech in Written Language by Bilingual and Bicultural Writers. U. Connor, Examining Syntactic Variation Across Three English-Speaking Nationalities Through a Multifeature/Multidimensional Approach. G.L. Nelson, J.G. Carson, N. Danison, L. Gajdusek, Social Dimensions of Second-Language Writing Instruction: Peer Response Groups as Cultural Context. Part II:Composing Gender Identity. D.H. Roen, C. Peguesse, V. Abordonado, Gender and Language Variation in Written Communication. D.L. Rubin, K. Greene, The Suppressed Voice Hypothesis in Women's Writing: Effects of Revision on Gender-Typical Style. E. Roulis, Gendered Voice in Composing, Gendered Voice in Evaluating: Gender and the Assessment of Writing Quality. Part III:Composing Writer-Audience Role Relations. M. Crowhurst, The Developmental Stylistics of Young Writers' Communicative Intentions. K.H. Swanson, Ultimatum and Negotiation: Gender Differences in Student Writing. T.M. Redd, Untapped Resources: "Styling" in Black Students' Writing for Black Audiences.
Biography
Donald L. Rubin
"The strengh of this collection lies in its recognition of the ethnography of writing....discusses a variety of factors which shape the identity of writers and thus affect their writing."
—Technical Communication Quarterly
