Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Part I Institutional/Disciplinary Economies
6. 1 The Politics of Valuation in Writing Assessment 13
7. 2 (Re)Writing Economies in a Community College 30
8. 3 Dwelling Work and the Teaching of Writing 43
9. 4 Occupy ing Res earch—Again/ Still 55
10. 5 The Political Economy of English 68
11. Part II Economies of Writing Pedagogy and Curriculum
12. 6 Economies of Knowledge Trans fer and the Use-Value of First-Year Composition 87
13. 7 Symbolic Capital in the First-Year Composition Classroom 99
14. 8 A Question of Mimetics 112
15. 9 Commodifying Writing 131
16. 10 Psychoanalysis , Writing Pedagogy, and the Public 145
17. Part III Economies of Language and Medium
18. 11 Literate Resources and the Contingent Value of Language 161
19. 12 The Rhetoric of Economic Costs and Social Benefits in US Healthcare Language Policy 172
20. 13 Web 2.0 Writing as Engine of Information Capital 191
21. 14 Www. Engl.ish 203
22. Part IV Public Writing Economies
23. 15 Habermasochism 225
24. 16 Tierra Contaminada 238
25. 17 Democratic Rhetoric in the Era of Neoliberalism 252
26. Afterword 269
27. References 273
28. About the Authors 295
29. Index 299