Hacking the body politic / Lil Brannon. Confessions of an assessment fellow / Deborah Mutnick -- First-year composition course redesigns : pedagogical innovation or solution to the "cost disease"? / Emily J. Isaacs -- Who's coming to the composition classroom : K-12 writing in and outside of common core state standards / Marcelle M. Haddix and Brandi Williams -- The national writing project in the age of austerity / Tom Fox and Elyse Eidman-Aadahl -- Occupy basic writing : pedagogy in the wake of austerity / Susan Naomi Bernstein -- Austerity behind bars : the "cost" of prison writing programs / Tobi Jacobi -- Buskerfest : the struggle for space in public rhetorical education / Mary Ann Cain -- First-year writing and the angels of austerity : a re-domesticated drama / Nancy Welch -- What happens when ideological narratives lose their force? / Jeanne Gunner -- Composition's dead / Ann Larson -- Austerity, contingency, and administrative bloat : writing programs in an age of feast and famine / Eileen Schell -- Beyond marketability : locating teacher agency in the neoliberal university / Shari Stenberg -- Animated by the entrepreneurial spirit : austerity, dispossession, and composition's last living act / Tony Scott -- Afterword : Hacking the body politic / Lil Brannon.
Summary:
"How neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. How neoliberal political economy dictates direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods, and the ways of assessing writing also shapes directions of scholarship"--Provided by publisher.
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