Writing Language: Composition, the Academy, and Work

This paper argues that while college composition courses are commonly charged with remediating students by providing them with the literacy skills they lack, they may instead be redefined as providing the occasion for rewriting language and knowledge. By bringing to the fore the dependence of langua...

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Main Author:	Bruce Horner
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2017-03-01
Series:	Humanities
Subjects:	remedial education writing pedagogy transfer translation English as a Lingua Franca knowledge mobilization language commodification neoliberal university
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/2/11

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spelling	doaj-6c09a74e05124a56976c1bb1abe7d0772020-11-24T21:29:49ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872017-03-01621110.3390/h6020011h6020011Writing Language: Composition, the Academy, and WorkBruce Horner0Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USAThis paper argues that while college composition courses are commonly charged with remediating students by providing them with the literacy skills they lack, they may instead be redefined as providing the occasion for rewriting language and knowledge. By bringing to the fore the dependence of language and knowledge on the labor of writing, a pedagogy of recursion, mediation, and translation of knowledge through writing and revision counters neoliberalism’s commodification of knowledge and language, and offers an alternative justification for continuing education as the occasion for students to remediate language and knowledge through writing.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/2/11remedial educationwriting pedagogytransfertranslationEnglish as a Lingua Francaknowledge mobilizationlanguage commodificationneoliberal university
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title	Writing Language: Composition, the Academy, and Work
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description	This paper argues that while college composition courses are commonly charged with remediating students by providing them with the literacy skills they lack, they may instead be redefined as providing the occasion for rewriting language and knowledge. By bringing to the fore the dependence of language and knowledge on the labor of writing, a pedagogy of recursion, mediation, and translation of knowledge through writing and revision counters neoliberalism’s commodification of knowledge and language, and offers an alternative justification for continuing education as the occasion for students to remediate language and knowledge through writing.
topic	remedial education writing pedagogy transfer translation English as a Lingua Franca knowledge mobilization language commodification neoliberal university
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Writing Language: Composition, the Academy, and Work

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