Who Owns School?
Authority, Students, and Online Discourse

by Kelly Ritter

New Dimensions in Computers and Composition Series
eds. Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher
Hampton Press, 2010


Reviewed by Rita Malenczyk
Director, University Writing Program and Writing Center
Eastern Connecticut State University










Introduction  
 



What About Freire?



The Pink Monkey



Psst! Wanna Buy A...?



And His Pants Are Ugly



Conclusions



Opinions


References and Credits

References

Gross, T. (2010, 29 October).  Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe: Kindred spirits. Interview with Patti Smith.  Fresh Air.  Transcript retrieved from
www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyld=130889380.

Ritter, K. (2005).  The economics of authorship: Online paper mills, student authors, and first-year composition.  College Composition and Communication, 56, 601-31.

Ritter, K. (2006).  Buying in, selling short: A pedagogy against the rhetoric of online paper mills. Pedagogy, 6, 25-51.

Ritter, K. (2010). Who owns school? Authority, students, and online discourse. Cresskill: Hampton Press.



Photo Credits

All photos retrieved from Wikimedia Commons.  Left to right:

Photo of obedient kids: US Navy Photo.  Public domain.

Photo of Japanese macaque taken by Scott M. Liddell at Edinburgh Zoo, 2007.  Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Photo of rowdy students by M. Farguson.  Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.