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Taken together, these works point to a distinct shift in composition studies ’ turn toward the social , one that calls on workers both within and outside the academy to actively engage in grassroots political struggle.  \nWelch, Nancy. Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2008: 175 pp.  \nScott, Tony. Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition. Logan: Utah State  \nUP, 2009: 199 pp.  \nFor at least the last twenty five years , the “turn toward the social” has been one of the dominant preoccupations in rhetoric and composition studies . Some scholars have gone so far as to claim that the field’s primary emphasis ought to shift from teaching “the process”—that is , “a composing sequence from invention and drafting to revision and copy editing”—to teaching “a range of literate activities that challenge [ …] a flawed social order” (Clifford and Ervin 179) . But while “the social turn” represents many things to many people, we see three distinct shifts in this socalled turn. The first—which is perhaps best exemplified in scholarship in the vein of Kenneth Bruffee’s 1984 essay ,“Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’”—emphasizes teaching writing and learning how to write as collaborative, interactive processes . The second shift grows out of the first , but , rather than focusing primarily on instructional practice, as James Berlin writes in Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures , it examines and critiques the signifying practices that shape subject formation—and, by extension, the discipline—“within the framework of economic , social , and political conditions” (83) . While scholarship represented by the third social turn does not ignore classroom pedagogy or critical theory , it also does something quite more: it takes as its starting point embodied activism.  \nSuch is the tie that binds Nancy Welch’s Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World and Tony Scott’s Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition. Working within feminist , civil rights , and labor activist traditions , Living Room is both a broad look at what Welch calls “our neoliberal moment” (7)—that is , a political era in which the public sphere is increasingly privatized—and a provocative call for ordinary citizens to use “workers ’ arguments” ( 107) to create space in which to speak and be heard. Taking a more focused look at the academy , Tony Scott’s Dangerous Writing considers the influence of the fast capitalist economy on the teaching of writing, documenting how the material , rhetorical , and ideological conditions of universities in general—and college composition in particular—have been undermined in a post Fordist economic landscape. Indeed, examined in relationship to each other, these books help to illuminate a distinct shift in the field’s turn toward the social , a shift that calls on workers both within and outside the academy to actively engage in grassroots political struggle.  \nConnecting rhetorical history with political activism , Living Room reflects on “the creative responses of earlier generations to constraints on (or prohibitions against) public visibility and voice” in order to “learn how individuals and groups , especially those lacking official platforms , have effectively argued for wider participation and greater democratization” (5) . Welch focuses on a range of examples from labor history—including wildcat strikes spearheaded by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the “tent city” occupation l","cbCaidSjUyzGnmNQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidSjUyzGnmNQ","pdf",210612,"English","# Abstract\n## Welch and Scott’s shared embodied activism\n## Three shifts within the social turn\n## Welch: Living Room and neoliberal privatization\n## Scott: Dangerous Writing and the political economy of composition\n## Rhetoric history and political activism","[{\"question\":\"What do Welch and Scott’s books share in relation to the “turn toward the social”?\",\"answer\":\"Both use embodied activism as a starting point and together frame a shift in composition studies that calls for participation in grassroots political struggle inside and outside the academy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay describe three distinct shifts within the “social turn”?\",\"answer\":\"The first emphasizes collaborative, interactive processes of teaching writing; the second critiques how signifying practices shape subject formation; the third begins from embodied activism, including political engagement.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the core focus of Nancy Welch’s Living Room?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how neoliberal privatization affects public visibility and voice, and it highlights activism in labor history and the academy through examples such as strikes and public occupations.\"}]","Composition Forum 21 - The Third Turn Toward the Social | PDF",1792087507]