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2009 · San Francisco

Battling Undercurrents: Textbooks, Technical Writing, and Pejorative Pedagogy

Session J.32

Area: History

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair DiAnn Courtoy Albany State University, GA → Albany State University
Speakers Stacey D. Gaines University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa → University of Alabama The Hidden Rhetoric of Handbooks: Embracing Waves of Instruction, Battling Undercurrents of Pejorative Ideologies
Speakers Paul Anheier University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis → University of Minnesota Textbook Tension in the Information Age: Pedagogy, Technology, and Institutions in Houp and Pearsall’s Reporting Technical Information
Speakers Kathleen Mollick Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX → Tarleton State University Hope for a Long Future: An Historic Overview of the Tarleton Writer, 1991–2005
Speakers Stephanie Odom University of Texas, Austin → The University of Texas at Austin Models of Writing: Examples in Rhetoric Textbooks

Source

NCTE's program, near page 223 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Battling Undercurrents: Textbooks, Technical Writing, and Pejorative Pedagogy.” 2009 Convention Program, San Francisco, session J.32. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.