The hope and the legacy; the past, present, and future of "students' right to their own language"

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

PE1405

2004-054315

1-57273-584-8

The hope and the legacy; the past, present, and future of "students' right to their own language".

Title main entry. Ed. by Patrick Bruch and Richard Marback. (Research and teaching in rhetoric and composition)

Hampton Press, Inc., [c]2005

269 p.

$62.50

To reinvigorate the field of composition studies, Bruch (writing studies, U. of Minnesota) and Marback (English, Wayne State U.) have collected essays addressing the 1974 College Composition and Communication resolution to allow students to use their own language in the classroom. The first group of essays reflects the climate that generated the resolution. The middle sections contain samples of immediate and later responses to the resolution. The concluding essays address contemporary issues in composition studies, such as racial identity and evaluation of work that uses dialects.