Scholars

Michael Bérubé
recognise political functions of academic work


James Britton
Growth Theorist: personal and expressive talk and writing, focus on individual writer


Ellen Cushman
Put forth investigations of the role of compositionists in changing academia and society


John Dewey
Published Democracy and Education in 1915. Discussed by Janet Emig. Linda Flower considers Dewey's "call for participatory learning" to be the predecessor of the community literacy movement.


John Dixon
Growth Theorist: personal and expressive talk and writing, focus on individual writer


Sidney Dobrin
Put forth investigations of the role of compositionists in changing academia and society


Peter Elbow
Expressivist: truth and knowledge are located in the individual, focus on individual writer


Janet Emig
Cognitivist: teachers should intervene in the recursive stages of the writing process, empower students, make classroom egalitarian, focus on individual writer


Stanley Fish
only those with the attention of a large portion of the population can be public intellectuals
the public no longer looks to public intellectuals for general knowledge


Linda Flower
Cognitivist: teachers should intervene in the recursive stages of the writing process, empower students, make classroom egalitarian, focus on individual writer


Nancy Fraser
says there are multiple public spheres
advocates for "subordinated" groups to make up alternate sites of public discourse called "subaltern counterpublics"


Jürgen Habermas
cultural theorist


John Hayes
Cognitivist: teachers should intervene in the recursive stages of the writing process, empower students, make classroom egalitarian, focus on individual writer


Bruce Herzberg
Author: "Community Service and Critical Teaching"


Alexander Kluge
cultural theorist
 

Ken Macrorie
Expressivist: truth and knowledge are located in the individual, focus on individual writer


James Moffett
Growth Theorist: personal and expressive talk and writing, focus on individual writer


Donald Murray
Expressivist: truth and knowledge are located in the individual, focus on individual writer


Oskar Negt
cultural theorist


Cary Nelson
recognise political functions of academic work


Bruce Robbins
recognise political functions of academic work


Christian Weisser
Author: Moving Beyond Academic Discourse


Susan Wells
"Rogue Cops and Health Care"
incorporated work of cultural theorists Habermas, Kluge and Negt into examinations of public writing