Anyway, looks aside, this is an okay collection. Honestly, not one of my favorites. There's discussion of AT (Activity Theory) and of abolishing FYC, there's talk about conflict and learning. At the end, Charles Bazerman, who directed my scary-smart bosses PhD dissertation, makes a statement basically saying that the whole book takes us in the wrong direction, which I thought was an interesting choice for Mr. P to make as an editor.
There's always been conflict within FYC and English Departments, as expounded in many of these texts for the exam, however, this is at whole, a collection of scholars who really think it needs to be erased. I find myself disagreeing with a lot of that for reasons I have neither space nor patience to expand at this moment. I'm glad I read this, but mostly, it just made me kind of angry. It's the scholarly version of saying, well, my husband and I have had one thing we can't agree on for the entire time we've been together and thus, we're getting divorced based on that one thing (such as, who takes out the trash).
My opinion, save your time and focus instead, on books about working within that conflict instead of just walking away.
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