"How would we write our composition manuals to escape this kind of criticism? Each book would have to define its audience in quite unaccustomed terms: working class black students, upper middle-class white students heading for the professions, etc. Each book would have a clear social aim, with a twofold job of raising social and rhetorical awareness (theory) and teaching composition as social and political practice, seeing the English classroom and the university as arenas of struggle."