Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (Pitt Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousnestraces 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. Critical of even her own previous work, Patricia Bizzell presents a picture of how she has grappled with major issues in composition studies over the past decade and offers suggestions for the development of composition studies as an academic discipline.Patricia Bizzell is the author of 'Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (Pitt Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)', published 1992 under ISBN 9780822954859 and ISBN 0822954850.