did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780312258696

Writing on the Margins Essays on Composition and Teaching

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780312258696

  • ISBN10:

    0312258690

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-06
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $82.12 Save up to $37.78
  • Rent Book $44.34
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 24-48 HOURS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, "Writing on the Margins" includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves as a valuable reference and as a powerful introduction to crucial issues in the field.

Table of Contents

The Study of Error
The Study of Error
Released into Language: Errors, Expectations and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy
Inventing the University
Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, and Misunderstandings
Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education
Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities, with Carolyn Ball & Laura Dice
Postscript: The Study of Error
Teaching Composition
Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills
Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins
Against the Grain
Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination
The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. J. Adler
Producing Adult Readers, 1930-1950
The Argument of Reading
Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae
Introduction: Ways of Reading, with Anthony Petrosky
Postscript: Teaching Composition
The Profession
Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC
The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum
What is Composition (and If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It?
Composition: 1900-2000
Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature
Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae
Postcript: The Profession
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program