Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2010
Abstract
This essay interrogates the concept of “clarity” that has become an imperative of effective student writing. I show that clarity is neither axiomatic nor transparent, and that the clear/unclear binary that informs the identification of clarity as a goal of effective student writing is itself unstable precisely because of the ideological baggage that undergirds its construction. I make this argument by finding the traces of composition’s insistence on student writers’ clarity in the attacks on the writing of critical theorists.
Recommended Citation
Barnard, Ian. "The Ruse of Clarity." College Composition and Communication 61.3 (Feb. 2010): 434-51. Print.
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
National Council of Teachers of English
COinS
Comments
This article was originally published in College Composition and Communication, volume 61, issue 3, in 2010.