Bruce   McComiskey is a strong advocate of social approaches to teaching   writing. However, he opposes composition teaching that relies on   cultural theory for content, because it too often prejudges the ethical   character of institutions and reverts unnecessarily to product-centered   practices in the classroom. He opposes what he calls the   "read-this-essay-and-do-what-the-author-did method of writing   instruction: read Roland Barthes's essay 'Toys' and write a similar   essay; read John Fiske's essay on TV and critique a show." McComiskey argues for teaching writing as situated in discourse itself,   in the constant flow of texts produced within social relationships and   institutions. He urges writing teachers not to neglect the linguistic   and rhetorical levels of composing, but rather to strengthen them with   attention to the social contexts and ideological investments that   pervade both the processes and products of writing. A work with a sophisticated theory base, and full of examples from McComiskey's own classrooms, Teaching Composition as a Social Process will be valued by experienced and beginning composition teachers alike.

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