Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-30-2017

Department

English

Abstract

This paper argues that while college composition courses are commonly charged with remediating students by providing them with the literacy skills they lack, they may instead be redefined as providing the occasion for rewriting language and knowledge. By bringing to the fore the dependence of language and knowledge on the labor of writing, a pedagogy of recursion, mediation, and translation of knowledge through writing and revision counters neoliberalism’s commodification of knowledge and language, and offers an alternative justification for continuing education as the occasion for students to remediate language and knowledge through writing.

Comments

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).

https://doi.org/10.3390/h6020011

Original Publication Information

Horner, Bruce. "Writing Language: Composition, the Academy, and Work." 2017. Humanities 6(2): 11 pp.

DOI

10.3390/h6020011

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