Irene Ward is in the English Department at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

• Introduction Chapter One Expressivists: Self-Discovery and Internal DialogueDialogic "Helping Circles" and the Search for TruthWriting as a Discovery of SelfDialogue with the Other SelfMurray's Dialogic Conference MethodDialogue and the Teacherless ClassCriterion-Based and Reader-Based FeedbackSharing and Responding to WritingElbow's Internal DialoguesElbow's Paradoxical AudienceInternal Dialogics: Manipulating Audience ConceptsExpressivist DialogicsChapter Two Social Constructionism and DialogismSocial Construction and the Justification of BeliefMarilyn Cooper's Ecological ModelA Social Theory of RhetoricWriting Group TheoryKenneth Bruffee and the "Conversation of Mankind"Bruffee's Collaborative PedagogyCommunity, Conversation, and the Problem of AuthorityChapter Three Dialogism and Radical PedagogyLiberatory Learning and Critical ConsciousnessFreirean DialogicsImporting Freirean Theory into CompositionThe Reflection and Action Dialectic IgnoredOther Liberatory Experiments and DisappointmentsThe Irony of North American "Liberatory" PedagogyReturning the Dialogic to Radical PedagogyChapter Four Postmodern Views of Discourse and DialogismGregory Ulmer and Applied Grammatology(En)acting a Postmodern PedagogyToward a Paralogic RhetoricToward a Paralogic PedagogyPostmodern Pedagogy and DialogismChapter Five Toward A Functional Dialogism For CompositionInternal Dialogue: The Unfolding of Self-KnowledgeInternal Dialogic and ''Ideological Becoming"Dialogism and Peer CriticismThe Role(s) of the Instructor in a Dialogic Writing ClassIncorporating Conflict and Difference into DialogismFeminist Epistemology and the Accomodation of DifferenceToward a Comprehensive DialogismWorks Cited and Consulted Index