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The public classroom is a place where
ideas can be engaged, interrogated,
argued for, and investigated without
fear of reprisal and in the spirit of
inquiry—every idea can be questioned
and critiqued, even the teacher’s.
— Michelle Comstock,
Mary Ann Cain,
and Lil Brannon
“
Composing Public Space
Michelle Comstock • Mary Ann Cain • Lil Brannon
Teaching Writing in the Face of Private Interests
A F T e r W o r d b y N a N c y W e l c h
”
Creating public space allows diverse
voices to be heard and engaged. It
enables all participants to explore the
contradictions, coherences, and conflicts
of their identities in relation to one
another.
Drawing on multidisciplinary research,
Michelle Comstock, Mary Ann Cain,
and Lil Brannon explore what counts as
research in composition, discuss whose
voices matter, and demonstrate how
teachers can foster and support diverse
classroom perspectives.
978-0-86709-598-2 / 2010 / 152pp / $21.00
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Composing Public Space:
n highlights and critiques the problems of privatizing public
debate
n encourages teachers to engage with students in
investigating assumptions and ideas
n provides models and methods for working toward collective
action to resist privatization.
Teaching must foster genuine inquiry, critical thinking, and
the oral and written representation of individual and collective
identities. Composing Public Space invites you to take a
stand and make a case for the creation of public space and
collective civic engagement in every classroom.
“�What Composing Public Space reminds us is that our teaching in this
moment cannot be neutral and that as educators and writing teachers
we need to relearn the fullest language, the fullest rhetorical strategies
to reclaim, hang onto, and expand the public space, public issues, public
resources lost to privatization’s long reign.” —Nancy Welch
Composing Public Space
Michelle Comstock • Mary Ann Cain • Lil Brannon
Teaching Writing in the Face of Private Interests
A F T e r W o r d b y N a N c y W e l c h
Michelle Comstock is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver, where
she teaches courses in public rhetorics and multimodal composition. Her latest research explores new
forms of sonic literacy (critical speaking and listening) inside and outside the composition classroom.
Mary Ann Cain is Professor of English at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, where
she teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction, rhetorics of identity, community, and narrative, and
women’s studies. Her current research explores community formation and collective identity while
her current fiction focuses on memory, language, and the effects of violence.
Lil Brannon is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she
directs the UNC Charlotte Writing Project. She teaches courses in composition, qualitative research,
and English education. Her latest research explores issues of identity and agency in the teaching and
