Volume
26 Number 2 Fall 1998
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Editor's Note |
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Terry
Beers |
Self-Representation
and the World Wide Web |
T.
R. Johnson |
An
Apology for Pleasure, or Rethinking Romanticism and the Student
Writer |
Review
Essays |
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Elizabeth
A. Flynn |
Arguing
Differently: A Memorial Reflection |
Sherry
Lee Linkon |
Don't Mourn--Organize! Taking Action in the Academic
Labor Crisis |
William
Condon |
Teaching
and
Assessing Writing: Common Ground |
Linda
Ferreira-Buckley |
Constructing Histories of Composition
Studies
in America |
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Severino, Guerra, and Butler / West |
Abstracts
for Composition Studies 26. 2
Beers, Terry. "Self-Representation
and the World Wide Web." Composition Studies (26.2):
13-34.
Inspired by post-structuralist perspectives, some hypertext theorists
have focused on the activities of readers, who structure a virtual
hypertext according to the succession of links that they choose to
follow. Since readers are seen to assume control of the arrangement
of material that they experience, the role of writers tends to disappear.
In this essay a complementary perspective is offered, one emphasizing
the stability hypertext
authors create by virtue of the links they write into their texts. This
structure of links forms the ground for exploring self-representation in hypertext
environments, especially on the World Wide Web.
Flynn, Elizabeth A. "Arguing
Differently: A Memorial Reflection." Composition
Studies (26.2): 59-73.
"Arguing Differently" identifies three responses to the challenge
to traditional rhetoric by postmodernists, feminists, and multuculturalists--revisions
of classical rhetoric, critiques of classical rhetoric, and resistance
to classical rhetoric. Works reviewed, Richard Fulkerson's
Teaching the Argument in Writing (NCTE, 1996), Barbara Emmel, Paula
Resch, and Deborah Tenney, eds. (Sage, 1996), and Deborah P. Berrill,
Perspectives on Written Argument (Hampton, 1996), are discussed in
relation to these three categories. The interanimating discussion
of the three approaches suggests some strengths and limitations of
each. The essay also provides a memorial reflection on Edward P.J.
Corbett.
