The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers

by McDonald, James C.

• ISBN13: 9780205316038
• ISBN10: 0205316034
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-03
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Designed for college writing teachers who are faced with teaching composition for the first time or re-examining their teaching goals and methods,The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachersis a collection of writings on important theories and pedagogies in composition studies.The selections discuss a range of theories and approaches to teaching writing and present readers with a number of options for instruction rather than a single way to teach. Written by some of today's foremost scholars and teachers, the articles range from discussing how to integrate critical thinking and reading into writing instruction to methods for responding to and evaluating student writing to dealing with grammar and editing.For those who teach writing.

Table of Contents

Foreward
James C. McDonald
GENERAL THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
``Mutual Friends: What Teachers Can Learn from Students and What Students Can Learn from Teachers''	1	(9)
Edward P. J. Corbett
``Teaching Writing: The Major Theories''	10	(16)
Anne Ruggles Gere
``Instructional Practices: Toward an Integration''	26	(9)
Janice M. Lauer
``Pomo Blues: Stories from First-Year Composition''	35	(18)
Lee Ann Carroll
``Toward a Social-Cognitive Understanding of Problematic Reading and Writing''	53	(15)
Glynda Hull
Mike Rose
AUDIENCE AND PEER GROUPS
``More Meanings of `Audience'''	68	(19)
Jack Selzer
``Consensus Groups: A Basic Model of Classroom Collaboration''	87	(22)
Kenneth Bruffee
COMPOSING AND REVISING
``Composing Processes: An Overview''	109	(19)
Patricia Bizzell
``Rhetorical Invention''	128	(14)
W. Ross Winterowd
``Recognition, Representation, and Revision''	142	(14)
Ann E. Berthoff
CRITICAL THINKING AND READING IN WRITING
``A Relationship Between Reading and Writing: The Conversational Model''	156	(7)
Charles Bazerman
``Five Ways of Interpreting a Text''	163	(24)
John Peters
``Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively''	187	(21)
Margaret Kantz
COMPUTERS
``Computer-Mediated Communication: Making Nets Work for Writing Instruction''	208	(15)
Fred Kemp
``Online Reading between the Lines: Searching for and Evaluating Internet Information''	223	(12)
Ellen Strenski
ARGUMENTATION
``Teaching Argument: A Theory of Types''	235	(11)
Jeanne Fahnestock
Marie Secor
``General Strategies of Argument''	246	(7)
Richard Fulkerson
``The Main Types of Claims: Lessons from Classical Rhetoric''	253	(8)
Richard Fulkerson
FORM AND STYLE
``An Apology for Form; or, Who Took the Form Out of the Process?''	261	(19)
Richard M. Coe
``What Makes a Text Coherent?''	280	(15)
Betty Bamberg
``Teaching Style''	295	(11)
Edward P. J. Corbett
``Where's the Action?''	306	(12)
Richard Lanham
GRAMMAR
``Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar''	318	(27)
Patrick Hartwell
``Explaining Grammatical Concepts''	345	(21)
Muriel Harris
Katherine E. Rowan
DESIGNING, RESPONDING TO, AND EVALUATING WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
``Improving Our Responses to Student Writing: A Process-Oriented Approach''	366	(8)
Leonard A. Podis
Joanne M. Podis
``Reflective Reading: Developing Thoughtful Ways to Respond to Students' Writing''	374	(20)
Chris M. Anson
``Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment''	394	(18)
Peter Elbow
``What Grades Do for Us, and How to Do without Them''	412	(16)
Marcy Bauman
Further Suggested Readings	428