Professing at the Fault Lines: Composition at Open Admissions Institutions

Considers writing instruction in open-admissions sites as central to the historical formation and continuing practice of composition studies. Interviews compositionists at open-admissions institutions, showing how they put students' acts of reading and writing at the center of their disciplinary practice, and regard the teaching of first-year writing as both the practice of their discipline and the site of knowledge production. (SR)