This book is meant for anybody in the composition business—teachers of composition theory and writing intensive courses in both college and high school, teacher educators, teachers of rhetoric, and graduate students. Composition and Resistance is a moving orchestration of our profession's deepest concerns about the economic, social, political, and practical aspects of teaching writing—matters that touch us all, both day-to-day and over professional lifetimes.

This is an action-oriented text, emphatic in its condemnation of unexamined persuasions, injudicious policies, uninformed practices, and stodginess; and liberatory in its arguments for change.