The politics of writing studies: reinventing our universities from below

Introduction

Contingent labor, writing studies, and writing about writing

The politics of transfer : grades, meritocracy, and genre in Anne Beaufort's College writing and beyond : a new framework for university writing

Metacognition and cynical conformity in writing across contexts

Genre as social conformity : Charles Bazerman after postmodernity

Writing theory, forgetting labor : Sid Dobrin and the posthuman subject

Conclusion : collective action to reinvent the university.