A Teaching Subject

by Harris, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780874218664
• ISBN10: 0874218667
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subjectoffers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition up to the present. Reviewing the development of the field through five key ideas, Harris unfolds a set of issues and tensions that continue to shape the teaching of writing today. Ultimately, he builds a case, now deeply influential in its own right, that composition defines itself through its interest and investment in the literacy work that students and teachers do together. Unique among English studies fields, composition is, Harris contends, a teaching subject.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface to New Edition	p. xi
Foreword(s): Research and Teaching	p. xv
Growth	p. 1
Postscript, 2012: Students as Writers	p. 21
Interchapter	p. 27
Voice	p. 32
Postscript, 2012: Intensive Academic Writing	p. 59
Interchapter	p. 65
Process	p. 72
Postscript, 2012: Track Changes	p. 91
Interchapter	p. 95
Error	p. 102
Postscript, 2012: Difference as a Resource	p. 121
Interchapter	p. 126
Community	p. 132
Postscript, 2012: From the Social to the Material	p. 155
Afterword(s): Contact and Negotiation	p. 161
Coda, 2012: From Dartmouth to New London	p. 170
References	p. 175
Index	p. 185
About the Author	p. 192
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