ABSTRACT
Chapter 4, “Rhetoric of the Future: Writing as a Site for Identity-Making,” employs a dialogic framework of text as a way to theorize the writing of school-age mothers. As part of this conceptualization, the chapter discusses the practice of writing as rhetoric of the future, thereby giving shape to writing’s particular orientation toward the future in the lives of school-age mothers. This chapter focuses on aspects of text as dialogic, including heteroglossia and genre. Through analysis of three specific cases of school-age mothers’ writing, the chapter demonstrates how writing is situated as a response to an intended ‘other.’
