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9781572735774

In Search of Eloquence : Cross-Disciplinary Conversations on the Role of Writing in Undergraduate Education

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  • ISBN13:

    9781572735774

  • ISBN10:

    1572735775

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-09-30
  • Publisher: Hampton Pr
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Table of Contents

1 Meeting the Rhetorician's Challenge Through Cross-Disciplinary Conversation 1(14)
Composition's Role When "English" No Longer Encompasses Writing Instruction
3(6)
Conversation as a Model for Cross-Campus Talk About Writing
9(6)
2 An Institution and Its Faculty: The Why and How of Our Study 15(16)
The Teaching Life at a Small Public Comprehensive
16(4)
Searching for Written Eloquence: Programs and Problems
20(2)
Processes and Principals
22(7)
An Ending and a Beginning
29(2)
3 In Search of Recognition: The Dynamics of the Interviews 31(32)
Developing Ordinary Language
37(14)
Facilitating Conversation: Moves Both Adept and Clumsy
51(10)
Interdisciplinary Study Through Conversation
61(2)
4 What Should Students Write? Distances and Proximities Among Classroom, Disciplinary and Workplace Genres 63(40)
Defining Genre
63(6)
Identifying Genres
69(11)
Connecting Classroom and Professional Genres
80(5)
Considering Doubts and Possibilities
85(6)
Translating, Playing and Adapting
91(7)
Valuing Classroom Genres, Contexts, and Collaborations
98(5)
5 Writing as Inquiry, Argument and Persuasion 103(32)
Logic, Emotion and Aesthetics in Inquiry and Argument
106(11)
The Shifting Circumstances of Ethos in Academe
117(7)
What, Then, Should We Teach?
124(11)
6 Expert Knowledge: Knowing That, Learning How, and Asking Why 135(46)
Connecting Expertise to Practice
139(9)
Asking Why or Learning How in Graduate School
148(5)
Writing to Learn, Reflect, and Critique in the Undergraduate Major
153(10)
General Education as a Supplement to Specialist Expertise
163(8)
Learning Non-Specialist Functional Expertise
171(10)
7 Connecting Correctness and Style to Writing Instruction Within and Beyond Disciplines 181(34)
Teaching Writing and Teaching Correctness
181(8)
Seeing Meaning as Stable or Variable
189(13)
Connecting Style to Writing Within And Beyond Disciplines
202(13)
8 Further Steps in the Search for Eloquence 215(14)
Appendices
Appendix A Schedule of First Interview Questions
229(2)
Appendix B Schedule of Second Interview Questions
231(2)
Appendix C Transcript Analysis Sheet
233(4)
Appendix D Technical and Scientific Writing: Assignment 4
237(2)
Appendix E College Writing II: Evaluating the First Position Paper
239(4)
Appendix F College Writing II: Second Position Paper Checklist
243(2)
References 245(6)
Author Index 251(4)
Subject Index 255

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