Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness

by Patricia Bizzell

Book Overview

This collection of essays traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically - and to respond pedagogically - to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Bizzell begins from the assumption that democratic education requires us to attempt to educate all students, including those whose social or ethnic backgrounds may have offered them little experience with academic discourse. Over the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822954850
• ISBN13: 9780822954859
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"