At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bruce McComiskey is Associate Professor and Cynthia Ryan is Assistant Professor of English. McComiskey is the author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. Cynthia Ryan's published work focuses on professional writing and medical rhetoric.

• ForewordLinda Flower IntroductionBruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, AlabamaTracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious CityElizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their WritingKrista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" WritingPaula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban CommunitySusan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing ProjectEd Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of CivilityVan E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic LiteraciesJeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition StudiesRichard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven UniversityDavid A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker EducationBarbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of PartnershipAnn M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights EraPatrick Bruch List of Contributors Index

The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.

At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bruce McComiskey is Associate Professor and Cynthia Ryan is Assistant Professor of English. McComiskey is the author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. Cynthia Ryan's published work focuses on professional writing and medical rhetoric.

• ForewordLinda Flower IntroductionBruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, AlabamaTracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious CityElizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their WritingKrista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" WritingPaula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban CommunitySusan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing ProjectEd Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of CivilityVan E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic LiteraciesJeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition StudiesRichard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven UniversityDavid A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker EducationBarbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of PartnershipAnn M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights EraPatrick Bruch List of Contributors Index

The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.

At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bruce McComiskey is Associate Professor and Cynthia Ryan is Assistant Professor of English. McComiskey is the author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. Cynthia Ryan's published work focuses on professional writing and medical rhetoric.

• ForewordLinda Flower IntroductionBruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan PART I: Negotiating Identities 1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, AlabamaTracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan 2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious CityElizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins 3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their WritingKrista Hiser 4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" WritingPaula Mathieu 5. From Urban Classroom to Urban CommunitySusan Swan PART II: Composing Spaces 6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing ProjectEd Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney 7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of CivilityVan E. Hillard 8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic LiteraciesJeffrey T. Grabill 9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition StudiesRichard Marback PART III: Redefining Practices 10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven UniversityDavid A. Jolliffe 11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"Lynee Lewis Gaillet 12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker EducationBarbara Gleason 13. Teaching Writing in a Context of PartnershipAnn M. Feldman 14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the Post–Civil Rights EraPatrick Bruch List of Contributors Index

The authors address the complex interwoven components of city comp: the identities of individuals and institutions that contribute to the writing of verbal, visual, and spatial texts; the spaces that serve as resources for student writing, analysis, and critique; and the curriculum practices implemented in programs that attempt to help students recognize, and in some cases, transform their understandings of the cities in which they live, learn, and compose.