#13. Peterson's Account of the Social Turn in Composition
In my last post, I announced I was going to be moving the blog to Substack. After some thinking, I decided that I actually prefer Blogspot, so I am going to be keeping the blog here for now. Blogspot feels more lowkey, which I think is a better vibe for a blog like this one. If the blog gets a larger readership, perhaps I may consider moving it again. I will still be keeping my twelfth post up on Substack, which can be read here . For today's post, I want to discuss a 1993 edited collection that I discovered during the Winter 2026 quarter, when I was working on my seminar paper about the New Abolitionists. I briefly mention this text, titled Theory & Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking the Discipline , in an earlier blog post . I was drawn to this book initially because it contains an article about the conflict between general skills writing instruction and discipline-specific writing instruction. For those not familiar with thi...