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Tables of Contents for (Re)Visioning Composition Textbooks
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Foreword
ix
Gary A. Olson
I. Overview
Introduction
3
12
Xin Liu Gale
Fredric G. Gale
In Case of Fire, Throw In (What to Do with Textbooks Once You Switch to Sourcebooks)
15
30
David Bleich
II. Textbooks, Culture, and Ideology
The Great Way: Reading and Writing in Freedom
45
24
Kurt Spellmeyer
Self, Other, In-Between: Cross-Cultural Composition Readers and the Reconstruction of Cultural Identities
69
24
Yameng Liu
Appreciating Narratives of Containment and Contentment: Reading the Writing Handbook as Public Discourse
93
20
Joseph Janangelo
A Textbook's Theory: Current Composition Theory in Argument Textbooks
113
24
Lizbeth A. Bryant
III. Textbooks and Pedagogy
Teaching from a Single Textbook ``Rhetric:'' The Potential Heaviness of the Book
137
26
Michael W. Kleine
Imitations of Life: Technical Writing Textbooks and the Social Context
163
22
Fredric G. Gale
The ``Full Toolbox'' and Critical Thinking: Conflicts and Contradictions in The St. Martin's Guide to Writing
185
32
Xin Liu Gale
IV. Material and Political Conditions of Publishing Textbooks
Of Handbooks and Handbags: Composition Textbook Publishing after the Deal Decade
217
14
Peter Mortensen
Textbook Advertisements in the Formation of Composition: 1969-1990
231
18
James Thomas Zebroski
Writing Writing Lives: The Collaborative Production of a Composition Text in a Large First-Year
249
18
Writing Program
Sara Garnes
David Humphries
Vic Mortimer
Jennifer Phegley
Kathleen R. Wallace
Contributors
267
4
Index
271