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#13. Peterson's Account of the Social Turn in Composition

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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...