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Volume 27 Number 1 Spring 1999


Articles

 

Peter Elbow

Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing

 Paul Kei Matsuda and Tony Silva

Cross-Cultural Composition:  Mediated Integration of US and International Students

Course Designs

 

Helen Fox

Unteaching Racism

Review Essays

 

John Schilb

Anthologizing Composition Studies

Heather Brodie Graves

Public Discourse, Academic Insight, and Embracing Difference:  How We Might Teach, Research, and Live

Elizabeth Rankin

Reflections on Academic Writing

Dana Harrington

The Ethical Turn in English Studies

Greg Wilson, Carl G. Herndl,and Julie Simon

Playing in Traffic:  Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy

Kathy J. Wolfe

Crisis, Change, Opportunity:  A Resituated WPA Reviews Resituating Writing

              Exchanges

Deans/Goodman; Fulkerson


Abstracts for Composition Studies 27.1

Elbow, Peter.  "Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing."  Composition Studies (27.1): 7-14. 

Writing collaboratively is common and valuable, but it has problems:  the process is difficult and often stifles weaker voices, and the product is often bland.  The collaborative collage is a good way to introduce collaborative writing because it overcomes those problems and often results in strong, finished pieces.  Experience with the collaborative collage can also help students learn to accept more complexity of thinking and voice into their solo essays.