Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking Esl, Basic Writing, and First-year Composition

by DeLuca; Geraldine

• ISBN13: 9780805838619
• ISBN10: 0805838619
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Designed for courses on theories and methods of teaching college writing, this text is distinguished by its emphasis on giving teachers a foundation of knowledge for teaching writing to a diverse student body. As such, it is equally relevant for teacher training in basic writing, ESL, and first year composition, the premise being that in most colleges and universities today teachers of each of these types of courses encounter similar student populations and teaching challenges. Many instructors compile packets of articles for this course because they cannot find an appropriate collection in one volume. This text fills that gap. It includes in one volume: *the latest thinking about teaching and tutoring basic writing, ESL, and first year composition students; *seminal articles, carefully selected to be accessible to those new to the field, by classic authors in the field of composition and ESL, as well as a number of new voices; *attention to both theory and practice, but with an emphasis on practice; and *articles about non-traditional students, multiculturalism, and writing across the disciplines. The text includes suggestions for pedagogy and invitations for exploration to engage readers in reflection and in applications to their own teaching practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
About the Editors	xv
I Teaching Writing	1	(134)
Introduction
Reclaiming the Classroom	9	(20)
Mike Rose
Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills	29	(24)
David Bartholomae
The First Day of Class: Passing the Test	53	(10)
Ira Shor
Collaboration, Conversation, and Reacculturation	63	(20)
Kenneth Bruffee
From ``Let's Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning''	83	(22)
Keith Gilyard
Pedagogy of the Distressed	105	(10)
Jane Tompkins
Pomo Blues: Stories From First Year Composition	115	(20)
Lee Ann Carroll
II Becoming a Writer	135	(108)
Introduction
The Process of Writing---Growing	141	(16)
Peter Elbow
Translating Self and Difference Through Literacy Narratives	157	(16)
Mary Soliday
From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle	173	(14)
Min-Zhan Lu
Listening for Difference	187	(12)
Roni Natov
ESL Tutors: Islands of Calm in the Multicultural Storm	199	(14)
Mark-Ameen Johnson
Writing Alive	213	(20)
Ellie Friedland
Toward a Post-Process Composition: Abandoning the Rhetoric of Assertion	233	(10)
Gary A. Olson
III Responding to Writing	243	(96)
Introduction
Responding to Texts: Facilitating Revision in the Writing Workshop	251	(20)
C. H. Knoblauch
Lil Brannon
The Listening Eye: Reflections on the Writing Conference	271	(8)
Donald M. Murray
Errors: Windows Into the Mind	279	(10)
Ann Raimes
High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing	289	(10)
Peter Elbow
The Myths of Assessment	299	(12)
Pat Belanoff
Evaluating ESL Writing	311	(12)
Elaine Brooks
Fault Lines in the Contact Zone	323	(16)
Richard E. Miller
IV Beyond the Writing Classroom	339	(132)
Introduction
The Argument for Writing Across the Curriculum	345	(14)
Toby Fulwiler
Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESL Students Across the Curriculum	359	(18)
Vivian Zamel
Opinion: The Wyoming Conference Resolution Opposing Unfair Salaries and Working Conditions for Post-Secondary Teachers of Writing	377	(10)
Linda R. Robertson
Sharon Crowley
Frank Lentricchia
Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology	387	(22)
Chris M. Anson
Basic Writing: Curricular Interactions With New Technology	409	(24)
Susan Stan
Terence G. Collins
Community Service and Critical Teaching	433	(14)
Bruce Herzberg
Places to Stand: The Reflective Writer-Teacher-Writer in Composition	447	(24)
Wendy Bishop
Credits	471	(4)
Index	475