Maureen M. Hourigan is Director of Freshman Composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

• ForewordIntroduction1. Literacy Crises and Campaigns in Perspective2. Re-Visioning Basic Writers3. Silence(s) in the Academy4. Culture and the Discourse of the Academy5. Reading-to-Write/Writing-to-Read; Conversations in the AcademyNotesWorks CitedIndex

"This book raises useful and necessary questions about the ways issues of culture have been excluded from the otherwise very socially-conscious end of composition—social constructionists and feminist and liberatory pedagogues alike. It argues for the English teacher as one who is involved in many discourses herself outside the classroom and the academy. But mainly, this book shows how composition's "social" concerns don't seem to fully consider the implications of culture. Hourigan has taken the issue out of the margins and placed it squarely in the laps of literacy educators and researchers." — Mary Ann Cain, Indiana University at South Bend

Maureen M. Hourigan is Director of Freshman Composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

• ForewordIntroduction1. Literacy Crises and Campaigns in Perspective2. Re-Visioning Basic Writers3. Silence(s) in the Academy4. Culture and the Discourse of the Academy5. Reading-to-Write/Writing-to-Read; Conversations in the AcademyNotesWorks CitedIndex

"This book raises useful and necessary questions about the ways issues of culture have been excluded from the otherwise very socially-conscious end of composition—social constructionists and feminist and liberatory pedagogues alike. It argues for the English teacher as one who is involved in many discourses herself outside the classroom and the academy. But mainly, this book shows how composition's "social" concerns don't seem to fully consider the implications of culture. Hourigan has taken the issue out of the margins and placed it squarely in the laps of literacy educators and researchers." — Mary Ann Cain, Indiana University at South Bend

Maureen M. Hourigan is Director of Freshman Composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

• ForewordIntroduction1. Literacy Crises and Campaigns in Perspective2. Re-Visioning Basic Writers3. Silence(s) in the Academy4. Culture and the Discourse of the Academy5. Reading-to-Write/Writing-to-Read; Conversations in the AcademyNotesWorks CitedIndex

"This book raises useful and necessary questions about the ways issues of culture have been excluded from the otherwise very socially-conscious end of composition—social constructionists and feminist and liberatory pedagogues alike. It argues for the English teacher as one who is involved in many discourses herself outside the classroom and the academy. But mainly, this book shows how composition's "social" concerns don't seem to fully consider the implications of culture. Hourigan has taken the issue out of the margins and placed it squarely in the laps of literacy educators and researchers." — Mary Ann Cain, Indiana University at South Bend