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Gere, Anne Ruggles. "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition." CCC 45.1 (1994): 75-92.
Gere sees composition scholars as having neglected to recount the history of composition in contexts outside the school classroom. She briefly reviews contemporary community-based writer's groups that encourage participants to hone their craft. She then examines historical popular magazines and women's clubs that encouraged literacy practices outside academia. In urging an examination of the relationship between domestic and academic scenes, Gere does not claim we should move away from current professionalism but rather that we consider "our own roles as agents within the culture that encompasses the communities on both sides of the classroom wall."
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