Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction
- ISBN-10
- 0867094001
- ISBN-13
- 9780867094008
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Boynton/Cook Publishers
- Author
- Nancy Welch
Description
In Getting Restless, Nancy Welch asks compositionists to rethink what they mean by "revision," urging them to examine long-held beliefs about teacher-student relations and writing practices. Drawing primarily on feminist and psychoanalytic theories, she considers how revision can be redefined as a process of disorientation: an act of restlessness with received meanings, familiar relationships, and disciplinary or generic boundaries, a practice of intervening in the meanings and identifications of one's text and one's life.
