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Andrea A. Lunsford. Composing Ourselves: Politics, Commitment, and the Teaching of Writing.

Lunsford, Andrea A. "Composing Ourselves: Politics, Commitment, and the Teaching of Writing." CCC 41.1 (1990): 71-82.

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In this, her 1989 CCCC Chair's Address, Lunsford argues that the field of rhetoric and composition must compose itself both historically and subjectively. Scholars, working in tandem with colleagues in anthropology, classics, history, and psychology, can broaden the history of the development of writing by looking for ways to "tell it slant." Also, the field should study not just writing and writers, but also the teachers of writing, probing for those stories throughout history that reflect a teacher's political and value-driven decision to teach writing to others in the hopes of changing the existing reality. Both inside and outside the academy, people are trying to compose the field in negative light, and so Lunsford argues that it is vital for composition and rhetoric scholars to compose themselves, asserting the merit of the field: its interdisciplinary, collaborative, postmodern, dynamic and democratic nature.

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