Welsh, Susan. “Writing: In and With the World.” College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 103-07.

• The author writes against the idea that Bartholomae and Elbow’s writing as an expression of ‘self’ is an adequate description of what is going on in the writing process.  The author wonders,
  • What is it that initiates writing, the self or the discursive context?
  • The essay is a meditation on the values of Expressivist pedagogy.
  • “The open writer in the open classroom brings into view neither a deeper self nor a discoursing subject but a more complex lived world, saturated with virtualities of reading and meaning and intention that an expressivist or discourse community orientation would not equip students to generate or manage” (106).
  • The author is interested in “eventfulness” and “conversation” because they evade binary relations and place the student writer in a therapeutics – a therapeutics of writing the self or a therapeutics of textuality (107).