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Standing in the Shadow of Giants
Rebecca Moore Howard
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Hardcover. A survey of changes and conflicts in Western theories of authorship, and an account of how and why plagiarism became important to academic culture. It includes a study of how teachers might craft pedagogy that authorizes student writing instead of criminalizing it. Series: Perspectives on Writing: Theory, Reasearch, Practice. Num Pages: 218 pages, reference, indices. BIC Classification: DSB; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 463.
Who's cheating whom in college writing instruction? This book argues that through binary privileging of the real author (the inspired, autonomous genius) over the transgressive writer (the collaborator or the plagiarist), composition pedagogy deprives students of important opportunities to join in scholarly discourse and assume authorial roles. From Plato's paradoxical dependence on and rejection of Homer, to Jerome McGann's dismissal of copyright as the hand of the dead, Standing in the Shadow of Giants surveys changes and conflicts in Western theories of authorship. From this survey emerges an account of how and why plagiarism became important to academic culture; how ... Read more
Who's cheating whom in college writing instruction? This book argues that through binary privileging of the real author (the inspired, autonomous genius) over the transgressive writer (the collaborator or the plagiarist), composition pedagogy deprives students of important opportunities to join in scholarly discourse and assume authorial roles. From Plato's paradoxical dependence on and rejection of Homer, to Jerome McGann's dismissal of copyright as the hand of the dead, Standing in the Shadow of Giants surveys changes and conflicts in Western theories of authorship. From this survey emerges an account of how and why plagiarism became important to academic culture; how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives on Writing: Theory, Reasearch, Practice
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781567504361
SKU
V9781567504361
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About Rebecca Moore Howard
REBECCA MOORE HOWARD chairs and directs the Writing Program at Syracuse University. She is co-author of Standing in the Shadow of Giants (1999), The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines (1995), and co-editor of Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (2000 forthcoming).
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