{"id":7010,"date":"2006-07-27T15:17:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/olson-the-death\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:17:34","slug":"olson-the-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/olson-the-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Olson, &#8220;The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in\">Olson, Gary.<br \/>\n          &quot;The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline.&quot;<br \/>\n          Olson 23-31.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Olson begins with a glaring critique of the perceived split between <b><br \/>\nhigh-theory elites<\/b> who avoid <b>&quot;the problems of the classroom&quot;<\/b> and<br \/>\nthose who would see composition as centrally concerned with &quot;self-reflection<br \/>\nabout the teaching of writing or about one&#8217;s own (or one&#8217;s students&#8217;) writing<br \/>\npractices&quot; (23). Olson was invited to address RNF and offer a justification for<br \/>\ntheory. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;In that speech, I argued that if postmodern discourse has taught us<br \/>\nanything, it is that &#8216;<b>rhetoric&#8217; is at the center of all knowledge making,<br \/>\neven in the sciences<\/b>. As a field devoted to how discourse works,<br \/>\ncomposition, then, is perfectly situated to participate in the exciting<br \/>\ncross-disciplinary investigations of the interrelations between epistemology and<br \/>\ndiscourse. That is, I argued that while we all desire to learn more about the<br \/>\nteaching of writing or about our own writing processes, these are <b>not the <i><br \/>\nonly<\/i> intellectual concerns<\/b> we should have as a discipline&quot; (24). Olson<br \/>\nnotes anti-intellectual associations with studying the teaching of writing,<br \/>\nciting Phelps.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Since that speech, I had thought that as a discipline, we had come to terms<br \/>\nwith our intellectual diversity&quot; (24). Olson says he was mistaken, however,<br \/>\ngiven currents against theory (and also against feminism) (25). He offers the<br \/>\nexample of Wendy Bishop&#8217;s piece in <i>CCC<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/inventio.us\/ccc\/archives\/1999\/09\/20_wendy_bishop.html\">51.1,<br \/>\n1999<\/a>), &quot;what will undoubtedly become known as &#8216;the <b>new theory wars<\/b>&#8216;&quot;<br \/>\n(25). Olson gives a reading of Bishop, telling that she makes claims that nobody<br \/>\ncares about good writing any longer (^read next to Fulkerson). <\/p>\n<p>&quot;No one seems to care about good writing and teaching, she claims; the<br \/>\nteacher-writer is dismissed or used for target practice&quot; (25).<br \/>\nBishop criticizes Pratt; Olson takes issue with her characterization of Pratt&#8217;s<br \/>\nsentence as having &quot;no clothes, no heart&quot; (27). In this second section, &quot;A Place<br \/>\nto Stand?,&quot; Olson unravels Bishops stance, raising questions about why, in the<br \/>\nname of &quot;good teaching&quot; it is acceptable to protect students from <b>dense<br \/>\ntheoretical vocabulary<\/b> when, ultimately, disciplinarity depends on<br \/>\nspecialization that includes <b>shared terms<\/b> (prewriting, freewriting,<br \/>\naudience invoked) (28). <\/p>\n<p>In the third section, &quot;A Sense of History,&quot; Olson refutes the attacks on <b><br \/>\n&quot;rapid professionalism&quot;<\/b> or &quot;careerism&quot; (28), noting that &quot;most &#8216;scholars&#8217;<br \/>\nmake <b>enormous sacrifices<\/b> to produce their work, gladly devoting huge<br \/>\nspans of time to their projects&#8211;not simply to further their careers but because<br \/>\nthey love the subject and are devoted to the discipline itself&quot; (28). The<br \/>\nfissure Bishop introduces, Olson writes, isn&#8217;t so different from its precedents:<br \/>\nthe disagreements between <b>cognitivists<\/b> and <b>expressivists<\/b> in the<br \/>\n1970s. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;For twenty years, composition scholarship has developed as an <b><br \/>\ninterdisciplinary, &#8216;intellectual&#8217; enterprise<\/b>&#8211;and we are much the richer<br \/>\nbecause of it&quot; (30). Olson closes with an emphasis on <b>respect for differences<\/b>.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related sources:<\/dt>\n<dd>Bishop, Wendy. &quot;Places to Stand: The Reflective Writer-Teacher-Writer in<br \/>\n  Composition.&quot; <i>CCC<\/i> 51.1 (1999): 9-31.<\/dd>\n<dd>Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. <i>Composition as a Human Science: Contributions<br \/>\n  to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline<\/i>. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Olson, Gary. &quot;The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline.&quot; Olson 23-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174],"tags":[1029,1030,1031,178,1032,617,645,1033,1974,1034,1035,185,698,291,417,1036,140],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing_technol","tag-bishop","tag-careerism","tag-cognitivist","tag-composition","tag-creative","tag-death","tag-discipline","tag-expressivist","tag-good-writing","tag-intellectual","tag-professionlization","tag-rhetoric","tag-scholarship","tag-teaching","tag-theory","tag-wars","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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