# Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom

- By: Tara Roeder - Author / Roseanne Gatto
- Publisher: WAC Clearinghouse
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/critical-expressivism-theory-and-practice-in-the-composition-classroom)
- Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
- PDF: https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/expressivism/
- eBook: https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/expressivism/

Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field."