Linda FlowerElenore LongLorraine Higgins

This monograph examines the concept of the rival hypothesis stance and how learners use rivaling, particularly in intercultural settings. For scholars in composition studies, literacy, service learning, rhetoric, teacher training, & argument.

Contents: C. Bazerman, Editor's Introduction. Part I:Perspectives on Inquiry. L. Flower, L. Higgins, E. Long, Preface: A Note on Intercultural Inquiry and Method. L. Flower, The Rival Hypothesis Stance and the Practice of Inquiry. L. Flower, An Experimental Way of Knowing. Part II:Intercultural Understanding and Academic Practice. L. Flower, E. Long, Tracking a Literate Practice: The Aseka Question. L. Higgins, The Opening Question: How Do Students Learn the Rival Hypothesis Stance? E. Long, L. Flower, D. Fleming, Encounters With Conflict. E. Long, D. Fleming, L. Flower, Rival Hypothesis Thinking in Action: Dilemma-Driven Literate Acts. L. Flower, S. Lawrence, D. Cook, Tracking a Literate Practice Across Disciplines: The Rival Hypothesis Stance in Biology and History. Part III:Rivaling and the Practice of Community Literacy. E. Long, L. Flower, D. Fleming, P. Wojahn, Rivaling in School and Out. E. Long, D. Fleming, L. Flower, Rivaling at the CLC: The Logic of a Strategic Process. L. Flower, Acts of Negotiation. E. Long, L. Higgins, L. Flower, Conclusion: Some Provisional Understandings.