City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices

This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Detroit. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan visit the fascinating history of various urban universities to illustrate how specific writing programs and instructors have engaged in the changing missions and priorities of their institutions.

The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.

Foreword

ix

Linda Flower

Introduction

1

(20)

Bruce McComiskey

Cynthia Ryan

PART I Negotiating Identities

Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama

21

(17)

Tracey Baker

Peggy Jolly

Bruce McComiskey

Cynthia Ryan

Writing Against Time: Students Composing ``Legacies'' in a History Conscious City

38

(19)

Elizabeth Ervin

Dan Collins

A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing

57

(14)

Krista Hiser

``Not Your Mama's Bus Tour'': A Case for ``Radically Insufficient'' Writing

71

(14)

Paula Mathieu

From Urban Classroom to Urban Community

85

(12)

Susan Swan

PART II Composing Spaces

Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project

97

(14)

Ed Nagelhout

Marilyn McKinney

A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility

111

(17)

Van E. Hillard

The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies

128

(13)

Jeffrey T. Grabill

Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies

141

(18)

Richard Marback

PART III Redefining Practices

Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University

159

(13)

David A. Jolliffe

Writing Program Administration in a ``Metropolitan University''

172

(17)

Lynee Lewis Gaillet

Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education

189

(14)

Barbara Gleason

Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership

203

(13)

Ann M. Feldman

Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era

216

(19)

Patrick Bruch

List of Contributors

235

(6)

Index

241

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City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices

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