Foreword
Linda Flower
Introduction
Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan
PART I: Negotiating Identities
1. Myth, Identity, and Composition: Teaching Writing in Birmingham, Alabama
Tracey Baker, Peggy Jolly, Bruce McComiskey, and Cynthia Ryan
2 Writing Against Time: Students Composing "Legacies" in a History Conscious City
Elizabeth Ervin and Dan Collins
3. A Paragraph Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich: The Effects of the GED on Four Urban Writers and Their Writing
Krista Hiser
4. "Not Your Mama's Bus Tour": A Case for "Radically Insufficient" Writing
Paula Mathieu
5. From Urban Classroom to Urban Community
Susan Swan
PART II: Composing Spaces
6. Simulated Destinations in the Desert: The Southern Nevada Writing Project
Ed Nagelhout and Marilyn McKinney
7. A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility
Van E. Hillard
8. The Written City: Urban Planning, Computer Networks, and Civic Literacies
Jeffrey T. Grabill
9. Speaking of the City and Literacies of Place Making in Composition Studies
Richard Marback
PART III: Redefining Practices
10. Composition by Immersion: Writing Your Way into a Mission-Driven University
David A. Jolliffe
11. Writing Program Administration in a "Metropolitan University"
Lynee Lewis Gaillet
12. Urban Literacies and the Ethnographic Process: Composing Communities at the Center for Worker Education
Barbara Gleason
13. Teaching Writing in a Context of Partnership
Ann M. Feldman
14. Moving to the City: Redefining Literacy in the PostCivil Rights Era
Patrick Bruch
List of Contributors
Index