Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms

by Helmers; Marguerite

• ISBN13: 9780805842272
• ISBN10: 0805842276
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What do we mean when we talk about reading? What does it mean to "teach reading?" What place does reading have in the college writing classroom? Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classroomstheoretically and practically situates the teaching of reading as a common pedagogical practice in the college writing classroom. As a whole, the book argues for rethinking the separation of reading and writing within the first-year writing classroom--for an expanded notion of reading that is based on finding and creating meaning from a variety of symbolic forms, not just print-based texts but also other forms, such as Web sites and visual images. The chapter authors represent a range of cultural, personal, and rhetorical perspectives, including cultural studies, classical rhetoric, visual rhetoric, electronic literacy, reader response theory, creative writing, and critical theories of literature and literary criticism. This volume, an important contribution to composition studies, is essential reading for researchers, instructors, writing program administrators, and students involved in college writing instruction and literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xvii
CULTURE
Introduction: Representing Reading	3	(24)
Marguerite Helmers
Closer than Close Reading: Historical Analysis, Cultural Analysis, and Symptomatic Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom	27	(24)
Kathleen McCormick
Reading as a Site of Spiritual Struggle	51	(18)
Lizabeth Rand
THEORY	69	(82)
The Master Double Frame and Other Lessons from Classical Education	71	(30)
Nancy L. Christiansen
Whatever Happened to Reader-Response Criticism?	101	(22)
Patricia Harkin
James J. Sosnoski
Reading the Visual in College Writing Classes	123	(28)
Charles A. Hill
CLASSROOM	151	(68)
The Rereading/Rewriting Process: Theory and Collaborative, Online Pedagogy	153	(20)
Marcel Cornis-Pope
Ann Woodlief
(Re)Reading and Writing Genres of Discourse: Creative Writing as General Education	173	(22)
Mary Ann Cain
George Kalamaras
Reading Matters for Writing	195	(24)
Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori
Afterword	219	(8)
Dale Bauer
Contributors	227	(4)
Author Index	231	(6)
Subject Index	237